Drive against violations by omni buses
The Coimbatore Circle of the Transport Department in a drive against overloading and violations by omni buses during the weekend checked 1,341 vehicles and registered 189 cases.In a release issued here, the Deputy Transport Commissioner, T. Gunasekaran, said that the check was conducted at nine places on all arterial and feeder roads in Coimbatore City, Coimbatore District, Erode and the Nilgiris.During the drive conducted by the respective Regional Transport Officers and Motor Vehicle Inspectors, 46 cases were registered for overloading of goods, four cases for overloading by persons, six for exceeding the height restriction and speed, 52 for parcels and goods not accompanied by passengers, eight cases for tax evasion, five cases for plying without driving licence, 10 for plying without pollution under control certificate, one for not having a valid insurance cover, two for plying without permit, 14 cases for dazzling headlights, four cases for misuse of permit conditions and four cases for use of air horns, the release said.The authorities detained one vehicle and also retained the records of another vehicle.As many as 63 cases of other violations were also registered.A sum of Rs. 3,100 was proposed as tax while the tax collected was Rs. 66,280.Compounding fee collected for the violations was Rs. 55,860 and the compounding fee proposed was Rs. 1,42,050.The tax and compounding fee proposed for the violations would be collected by the respective registering authorities after adhering to the procedures including serving of notices calling for explanations.
