| JAMMU, Jan 22: State Government is mulling a proposal to register public transport vehicles fitted with GPS system and panic buttons from April 1 this year. This was disclosed by Principal Secretary, Transport Department, Dr Asgar Hassan Samoon here today. He directed rolling out process of setting up a radar surveillance system to monitor passenger vehicles when the GPS is fitted with them. The software that will be setup in Transport Commissioner's office is being developed by Center for Developing Advanced Computing under 'Suraksha Mitra' to track, locate and give real time data of vehicles. Besides tamper proof- GPS system, name, age, address and contact number of all drivers along with photographs will be displayed in the vehicle, he said. |
