The report, “Lok Sabha passes Motor Vehicles Act” (April 11), indicates that a number of far-reaching reforms are being proposed to make journeys by road safe.
The transport minister should be complimented for his steadfastness in pushing big-ticket reforms and for promoting bipartisan opinion. Another side to the motor transport discussion concerns its deadly impact on the environment. Thus, vehicles are required to get a pollution control certificate periodically. But how reliable are the certifying units at most petrol pumping stations is anybody’s guess.
When I requested my authorised service centre for a pollution check, I was told it was not authorised to do so. I think these authorised sales and service centres have best-in-class infrastructure for repair and maintenance of cars and vehicles; it should be common sense then that they would also check pollution.
The transport ministry should make it compulsory for such centres to have pollution checking permissions.
Y P Issar Karnal
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