Will keep a tab on overloading of vehicles in state: Khattar
Depts such as excise and taxation to be roped in to deal with issue
KURUKSHETRA: Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Sunday said that the state government was going to implement a new policy to keep a close tab on the overloading of vehicles in the state.
“As the regional transport authority alone (RTA) cannot keep the overloading vehicles in check in the state, we have decided to merge other departments such as excise and taxation while the RTA and police will work jointly to deal with the issue. They will be given powers to issue challans to the vehicles found overloading,” the chief minister said when asked why the government has failed to curb the overloading of vehicles which have claimed several lives on the roads of Haryana in the past one month.
He said that the officers will be deputed to impound the vehicles on repeated violations.
The chief minister, who was in Kurukshetra on a two-day tour, said that the BJP government in Haryana was also planning to celebrate ‘International Gita Mahotsav’ on the lines of Kumbh Mela and he had already held a meeting with the officers concerned in this regard.
Khattar said that the government will observe December 25 as the Good Governance Day and more steps will be taken to increase the transparency in government functioning by launching online services.
Besides flyover on the Jhansa road in Kurukshetra, the chief minister also announced the up-gradation of Pipli bus stand.
Khattar also visited Ambala where he spoke on the Bharat Vikas Parishad’s (BVP) first annual conference at SD College. He announced ₹11-lakh grant for the college building and released a souvenir. BVP national general secretary Ajay Ratta said his outfit was a disciplined social service organisation which has 60,000 members and 122 units are active in state.