Campbell Bay, 25 Mar 2021
Safety of commuters especially females and other vulnerable persons is a prime concern area while travelling in public passenger transport vehicles like Cabs, Taxis, Public Buses etc. Hence, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Govt. of India has proposed a system to enhance the safety of the women and the girl children by equipping with Vehicle Location Tracking Device (VLTD) and Emergency Buttons for raising alerts in case of emergency in all the public passenger transport vehicles. Accordingly, the Ministry has amended the CMVR 1989 by inserting Rule 125H that confirms to AIS-140 Standard and the Commercial Vehicles (except 2 & 3 wheelers) are required to be fitted with VLT Device (GPS) and emergency button.
In order to implement this initiative, the Transport Department, A & N Administration has empanelled 16 eligible firms for fitment of GPS based VLTD with panic button in the commercial vehicles (except two & three wheeler) plying in this UT. The details of empanelled firm can be downloaded from the Departmental website transport.and.nic.in.
All the Transport (commercial) Vehicle owners (except two & three wheelers) shall comply with the Rule and get their vehicles fitted with Vehicle Location Tracking Device alongwith Panic button through any of the empanelled firm before the timeline as mentioned vide order No.747 dated 17.03.2021 which is detailed below:-
Educational Institution Buses – 31.05.2021, Stage Carriage – 31.07.2021, Contract Carriage – 31.08.2021, Goods Vehicle – 31.08.2021