Monday, 06 September 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
The Transport department has issued orders to the assistant regional transport officers (ARTOs) of the enforcement teams of Haridwar and Dehradun districts to check unauthorised operation of vehicles in association with the officials of the transport corporation. The order also states that if senior authorities find more such violations in the districts, respective transport officials will be held responsible for them in their respective areas after the department verifies their role in the violation.
The regional transport officer (enforcement) of Dehradun, Sandeep Saini said that the department has received several complaints from various locations in Dehradun and Haridwar districts about the unauthorised operation of vehicles that violate their permit norms. Some buses are also operating through the online booking system without any valid license from the department. In view of this, transport secretary Ranjit Sinha has directed all the ARTOs of enforcement teams of Dehradun, Haridwar, Roorkee, Vikasnagar and Rishikesh to take action against such blatant violations of rules under the Motor Vehicles Act. The department has directed the transport officers to run a joint checking campaign with the officials of the transport corporation in their respective areas till the further orders.
Saini informed that all the teams have been instructed to provide the details of action taken by them on a daily basis to their respective enforcement officers the next day by 10 AM. “If any senior officer finds any unauthorised movement of vehicles from now onwards, the department will take action against the concerned transport officer after verifying his or her role in the violation,” stated Saini. He also informed that following the department’s orders, eight buses were seized in Dehradun and Haridwar under contract carriage norms violation and operation without aggregator license by the enforcement teams.
