The Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill which was passed by the Lok Sabha on April 10 has a lot of provisions to toughen the country’s stance on road safety. From higher fines that will go up by 10% every year to holding engineers and contractors accountable for faulty roads, here’s what you need to know about the bill
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The Bill is considered to be a much-needed update to the 1988 Motor Vehicles Act and critical to improving road safety in India
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Here is a look back at the long-winded journey to improve the country’s road safety legislation
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The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture recognised drink driving as a major cause of road accidents and deaths in India and recommended that the act be treated as culpable homicide not amounting to murder
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The Parliamentary Committee has made suggestions to toughen the penalties for drink driving, among other things
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The pending Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill is not the piece of road safety legislation which was initially envisioned by the government and experts. What are its differences?
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The Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill promises to toughen and improve road safety practices in India. Experts believe that while the bill is a move in the right direction to update laws set in 1988, the biggest challenge will be its enforcement.
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Road accidents in India take more lives than natural disasters and diseases do and these figures are on the rise. With the aim of addressing this problem, the pending Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill 2016 is an attempt to create an exhaustive and comprehensive legislative framework for road safety in India
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