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Issued warning on goods loading on passenger vehicles
Kishtwar police hold meeting with transporters
12/11/2015 11:44:42 PM
Early Times Report
KISHTWAR, Dec 11: In order to check the overloading as well as goods loading on passenger busses and vehicles traveling on Jammu-Kishtwar route and other routes of Kishtwar District.
A team of Kishtwar police comprising of Dy. SP HQ Kishtwar Touseef Ahmed, SHO Police Station Kishtwar Mohammad Afzal Wani and other officers held a meeting with transporters of Kishtwar District and seek their cooperation in checking the menace of overloading which has become the cause of major accidents in the District claiming life of several innocent people.
While talking to "Early Times", Dy. SP HQ Kishtwar Touseef Ahmed said that the aim and objective of organizing meeting with the transporters and transport union leaders is to convey them a strict massage to avoid overloading, beside also told them not to load goods on buses and passenger vehicles. He said that police received lot of complaints from general public complaining that instead of ferrying passenger, the busses and other private passenger vehicles had turned into goods carrier by loading 6 to 8 feet load on roof tops of the busses threatening the lives of the passengers travelling on these busses. He said that on the bases of these complaints, the District administration as well as police has decided to take strict action against those transporters who violate the rules and regulation by indulging in such acts. He said that passenger vehicles are never meant for transportation of goods and vegetables and for the same government issues special permits to load carriers and goods carrier trucks. He said that police had also received complaints about the use of kerosene oil by transporters in their vehicles, added that police will also act against such transporters under essential commodities act. He said that transporters had assured the police that they will abide with the directions issued by the police and the administration, added that any deliration will be dealt strictly in accordance to the law. The issues of timing of departure of vehicles from bus stand which lead to a murder of a driver few months back was also discussed threadbare, beside certain measures were also put into place to check the violations of the decision taken jointly by various stake holders with regard to fixing of departure time.
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