Transport Minister M.R. Vijayabhaskar said Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami would soon issue a government order for implementing the new Motor Vehicles Act.
Speaking to mediapersons after conducting a review meeting for the Deepavali festival at the Secretariat on Thursday, the Minister said the Chief Minister was consulting departments to bring out a G.O. to reduce the fines prescribed in the new MV Act of the Central government. To a query about the exorbitant fines collected under the new Act, he said the State government was still following only the old provisions of fining for traffic violations.
Regarding the demand for reduction of “hefty fines” prescribed by the Central Act for various traffic violations, the Minister said as per the Central government’s MV Act all fines could not be reduced.
Deepavali rush
To handle Deepavali rush, the Transport Department would be operating 10,940 buses for the fourth year in succession. The booking of tickets for Deepavali festival would begin from September 23.
The special buses would be operated for three days from Chennai to various places from October 24 to 26. Buses would ply from Madhavaram, Poonamallee, Tambaram, Tambaram Sanatorium, K.K. Nagar and Chennai Mofussil Bus Terminus in Koyambedu. The department would also operate more than 8,000 buses in other places of the State.
For the festival goers to come back to the city, the department would be operating 4,627 special buses between October 27 and 30. Also, 6,900 buses would be operated between various places in the State.
