Haryana Transport department collects Rs 32 Cr fine

The Haryana Transport Department has collected a whopping Rs 32.32 crore as fine from overloaded vehicles and those plying in an unauthorised manner.
"While intensifying its campaign against unauthorised plying and overloading of vehicles, the Department has fined 22,715 vehicles during the current financial year upto November 2014 and has collected about Rs 32.32 crore as compounding fee from these vehicles," an official spokesman said here today.
"A sum of Rs 28.86 crore had been collected as compounding fee during the corresponding period of last year," he said.
He said that these vehicles have been challaned under the Motor Vehicle Act 1988 for violating norms under the Act.

It is expected that revenue generation on account of compounding of offences would be Rs 55 crore by the end of the current financial year as compared to Rs 43 crore collected during the year 2013-14, he said.
The department has taken a number of steps to ensure safety of road users, including launching vigorous campaigns against the unauthorised plying of overloaded vehicles, he said.