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During my discussion & # $ #& # $ / + under the amended Act and $ , $ * "/ with Chief Minister Devendra wrote to the Centre to “recon- # $ +0"" &" $ * "" Fadnavis, he didn’t mention it. sider” and “reduce” the fines for I feel there’ll be no problem.” !" # &" $ $ $ 0 & traffic violations through suit- , 1 $ %$% + The Tamil Nadu able amendments. Government said as many as 26 $%$& 0$ & ",$ Against the backdrop of 0$ 0"#/ ;"# $$ clauses which prescribed hefty # " . reluctance of several States to & $ & " # penalty for various traffic , $ implement the new Motor $ * $& "& $ 5 offences are being reviewed by $ #$ Vehicle Act and instances of ", " # $ / the Chief Minister’s office and , massive protests against it, that penalty prescribed in the & +0$ & ",$ Road Transport Minister Nitin intend to garner revenue by ing the amended Act. Government” and the revised Minister Diwakar Raote of the the Government. “We had Act are likely to be reduced by $ 1'(& " Gadkari said States have the increasing fines. The idea is to Gadkari’s comments come fines will be implemented from Shiv Sena said, “The fines are opposed amendments in the Government. 2 $$ %$ + authority to revise fines. make roads safer and reduce after Gujarat announced to September 16. very high and beyond the lim- Parliament. If we implement “The decision by a few "& " " “MVA falls in the concur- the number of accidents. Are reduce traffic fines, with Chief While West Bengal Chief its of common people. People the Motor Vehicles Act amend- States to cut the fine amount & , " $ rent list, and States as well as fines more important than Minister Vijay Rupani saying Minister Mamata Banerjee cannot pay so much of fine. We ments, it will hurt general peo- for a few traffic offences will be $ ",+ " "" the Centre can revise and frame someone’s life? You won’t be that the “base rate for the fines said that she will not imple- have asked the Central ple,” the Bengal CM, who is one taken into account before arriv- 1''3& " $" " rules under the amended Act. fined if you don’t break the will be lower than the one pro- ment the new law that impos- Government to reduce the fine. of the BJP’s fiercest critics, told ing at the final decision,” said 14'& " ,.# The Government does not rules,” the Minister said defend- posed by the Union es hefty fines for traffic viola- Till we get a reply from the reporters in Kolkata. a Tamil Nadu transport official. + tions, the Tamil Nadu Centre, we will not implement Adding that money is not The Union Government Government decided to the new fines. If the reply is in the solution, Mamata said the had amended 93 clauses in implement it partially. the negative, we will decide our problem needs to be looked at Motor Vehicle Act which deals ' Announcing the decision future action.” from the “humanitarian point with penalties for traffic viola- %($)$% 5 0 to stay the fines for traffic vio- Calling the amendments in of view”. Saying that accidents tions, registration of vehicles, " , lation pending the revision of the Motor Vehicles Act “too have come down, Mamata also national transport policy and # $6$ % & rates by the Centre, harsh” Mamata said it was added that Bengal already has vehicle designs. # # ! Maharashtra Transport against the federal structure of the “Safe Drive Save Life” cam- Continued on Page 2 $ 782 + * n order to deal with the rush Iof vehicles to pollution ! checking centres for Pollution Under Control (PUC) certifi- " 50)15 “There is a country called cate across Delhi after the Rwanda in Africa. I had gone implementation of new Motor rime Minister Narendra there. In Rwanda, there is a Vehicle Act, Delhi Transport PModi on Wednesday hit unique programme, where the Minister Kailash Gahlot on out at critics who argue that the Government gives cows to vil- Wednesday announced sever- mention of words “Om” and lages with the condition that al remedial measures. “cow” takes India centuries the first female calf born to the The decision was taken back, saying they are hell-bent cow is taken back and given to after the Transport on damaging the country. those who do not have a cow,” Department witnessed a three- “When some people hear said the PM. fold increase in the number of the words Om and cow, they “This way a chain operates. applications for PUC certificate scream that the country is And their endeavour is that in from 15,000 to 45,000 a day. back to the 16th century. Such Rwanda every household Gahlot said there are 70 lakh checking services. In centres tain offences as per the new people are only destroying the should have a cow. Milk pro- vehicles on roads in Delhi. with huge rush, civil defense MV Act, as of now Delhi nation,” Modi said at the launch duction and animal rearing The Transport volunteers will be deployed for Government is not mulling to of National Animal Disease form the base of the economy. Department has asked all 941 crowd management to prevent dilute them since the stringent Control Programme (NACDP) I have myself seen how a net- pollution checking centres to law and order issues,” the Delhi measures are meant to ensure in Mathura. work to earn livelihood function from 7am to 10pm. Government’s transport road safety. Road safety is a The NACDP aims to con- through a cow has been estab- Besides, and server capacity department said in a statement. major concern in Delhi and the trol foot and mouth disease and lished there,” Modi said, has been increased nearly twice The Delhi Government Delhi Government is very seri- bacterial infection in livestock. adding, “But it is unfortunate to deal with 6,000 online appli- on Friday suspended two pol- ous about it.” The Centre will spend 12,652 that in our country the cations per hour. lution checking centres for Gahlot said, “We are close- crore to vaccinate over 600 mil- moment the word ‘Om’ falls on “The Delhi Government malpractices. ly observing the initiatives by lion animals in the programme the ears of some people, they has decided to open more pol- On diluting the penalties other States and consulting stretching up to 2030. get alarmed.” lution checking centres and of offences under the MV Act various stakeholders. At any Modi also promoted clean- “They also get alarmed by new applications are invited. 2019, the Transport Minister stage, if the Delhi Government liness, spoke against single- the word ‘cow’. They feel as if An advertisement in this said, “Though the State is convinced to reduce the use plastic and invoked the that the country has gone back respect will be floated tomor- Governments have certain dis- fine for certain offences, we 9/11 attack on America to to the 16th or the 17th centu- row. Transport terminals and cretionary powers to ease the shall do the needful.” indirectly condemn Pakistan ry,” he said. depots to provide pollution penalties with respect to cer- Continued on Page 2 for nurturing terrorism. Continued on Page 2 ! "# "#! $ % & $ % & '( 9 75:555 the camp before evicting the great. Blame the voters. Blame ' ""( inmates. Five buses were everyone but BJP’s handling of ension gripped Andhra arranged to send them back to inance Minister Nirmala the economy Mrs Finance at the Jai Prakash Narayan TPradesh on Wednesday as their villages. FSitharaman on Wednesday Minister,” Singhvi tweeted. Apex Trauma Centre, AIIMS, former Chief Minister and A large contingent of police came under fierce attack from Singhvi questioned how n-camera proceedings com- where the woman is presently Telugu Desam Party (TDP) tied the main entrance gate of the Congress and Twitterati the economy will cross 5 tril- Imenced on Wednesday at admitted following an acci- president N Chandrababu Naidu’s riverfront residence over her remarks that slow- lion dollars in view of the pre- AIIMS here, where a tempo- dent on July 28. Naidu and senior party leaders with ropes and shut other gates down in auto sectors was due vailing circumstances. rary court has been set up for The Delhi High Court had were placed under house arrest to prevent him from coming to the change in mindset of “Whatever good has hap- recording the Unnao rape sur- on Friday approved recording at Undavalli in Amaravati in a out after he tried to come out millennials, who, she said, now pened has been done by us vivor’s statement in the case of the rape survivor’s statement at bid to stop them from pro- in his car. Naidu, who sat on in prefer taxi aggregators like Ola (Modinomics). Whatever bad alleged sexual assault by AIIMS Trauma Centre. A noti- ceeding to Palnadu in Guntur his car for half an hour, con- and Uber instead of owning has happened has been done by expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep fication to this effect was issued district for organising an agi- demned the police action.