Key highlights of draft notification:
- It provides a boost to electric vehicles, ensuring divyang friendly features in buses, and providing an enabling mechanism for scrapping of vehicles older than 15 years.
- The renewal of certificate of fitness in respect of transport vehicles older than 15 years has been proposed to be conducted every six months from the current requirement of testing once a year.
- The fees have been increased further for conducting fitness test and grant and renewal of certificate of fitness for motor vehicles older than 15 years.
- Priority seats, signs, securing of crutches/ canes/ walkers and wheel chair entry/ housing/ locking arrangement for wheel chair for Differently Abled passengers to be checked and ensured at the time of Fitness Inspection for buses has been introduced.
- Battery Operated Vehicles will be exempted from the payment of fees for the purpose of issue or renewal of registration certificate and assignment of new registration mark.
