Motor Vehicles Bill-Contd.

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1. 1Prof. N. Tombi SinghSpeaker label in OCR: SHRI ।. TOMBI SINGH · 728 words

   Mr. Chairman, Sir, J rise to support this Bill. Undoubtedly, it is a very comprehensive Biil with so many provisions and ” Motor Vehicles Bill one can make reference to only a few of the provisions. One of the portions in the statement of Objects and Reasons is very attractive to some of us—‘‘the greater flow of passenger and freight with the least impediments so that islands of isolation are not created...” As the Hon, Minister knows, 1 belong to one of the islands of isolatiun in Norjbh-Easst. In the North-East region beginning with Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Arunachal, and we can take Sikkim also, there are no railway faciliues, only vehicular traffic or roadway facility is there. That is the only facility that we get for passengers and freight, The importance of this Bill cannot, therefore, be exaggerated as far as that region is concerned, Sir, one of the provisions related permits for the buses to move State to State. Sir, | am not a lawyer myself. । have not been able to go through all the provisions skilfully. lo this context, I would hike to say that people in that region are scared of moving by train, they are not used to moving by the train. So, during the pilgrimage season, particularly in my State of Manipur, the majority Hindu population move out 10 buses and reach to the Hindu piigrim places of the country. It is very difficult for these buses to move between the State passing the interstate borders because the border police and other, who are in chatge of the vehicles harass them. 1 am speaking of only of those cases which I know. But the situation may be same with other pilgrim or tourist buses coming from the Tamil Nadu and other Southern States from where the pilgrim buses go to all over the country, like Haridwar, Rishikesh and Banaras. Now, most of the drivers, conductors aod thuse who are in charge of the vchicles, are not very educated people. Here a mention has been made of giving licences to the conductors. This itself may or may not help because Iam very doubtful about the utility of the licences being issused to the conductors, But, as the Government said, this Bill has been based on the recommendations, réports and other findings from various studies at different levels, 1 don’t challenge and dispute this provision. SRAVANA 28, 1910.0 (SAKA) Motor Vehteles Bill ” 15,27 hrs. But what is important is that due respect should be paid to such permits and issued by a State Transport Authority to cover a country side route. Such permits should be foolproof permit which does not give any roomto the police on the interstate borders to harass such innocent drivers, conductors and passengers who are mostly not businessmen but mainly pilgrims. So, this provision has to be made. This can be covered only by having a national permit which will have a building impact on the State Transport Authorities. I think, this aspect has been taken care of in the Bill. Then there is the provision of restricticn of the hour of working for the drivers. It says that the driver has to take 5 hrs. duty at a stretch and then half-en-hour rest before he takes up the driving work again. So, accordirg to this provision the total working hours for one week are 48 hrs. I thiok, this may create some problem to the Transport Authority. As the saying goes, the taste of pudding is in its eating, though these provisions seem to be very useful and good provisions, how useful they would be will be known only when we will reach at the implementation stage. Who is going to check these things and how efficienty and effectively they can be implemented. Sir, when we talk about the small-small details like the limited hours for the drivers and so many other things, in the civil aviation flights we see that the pilots, the hostesses and stewards who are on duty have been given certain specific flying bours beyond which they don’t remain on duty and other persons take over from them. Now, I think that this provision only indicates that.due attention has been given to the safety aspect of both the passengers and the vehicles by introducing _ strict number of driving or duty hours...

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   • Motor Vehicles Bill-Contd. · 19 August 1988
2. 2Prof. N. Tombi SinghSpeaker label in OCR: SHRI N. TOMBI SINGH · 6 words

   Kindly allow me to contioue Sir.

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   • Motor Vehicles Bill-Contd. · 19 August 1988
   • Resolution Re : Centre-State Relations-Contd. · 19 August 1988
   • Resolution Re : Centre-State Relations-Contd. · 19 August 1988

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1. est you to reconsider the situation and refer it to a Joint Select Committee, so that all these aspects and many other aspects that have been raised can be gone into properly. What is all this mad drive for privatisation and losing revenue, Ido not understand. । hope you will reconsider it, SHRI ।. TOMBI SINGH (Inner Manipur) : Mr. Chairman, Sir, J rise to support this Bill. Undoubtedly, it is a very comprehensive Biil with so many provisions and ” Motor Vehicles Bill one can make reference to only a few of the provisions. One of the portions in the statement of Objects and Reasons is very attractive to
2. ision only indicates that.due attention has been given to the safety aspect of both the passengers and the vehicles by introducing _ strict number of driving or duty hours... MR. CHAIRMAN : Are you going to conclude or do you want to continue 7 33 ~=-Resl. re : Centre-State Relations—Contd. SHRI N. TOMBI SINGH: Kindly allow me to contioue Sir. MR. CHAIRMAN : All right. You may continue when we next take up this Bill, 15,30 hrs. RESOLUTION RE : CENTRE-STATE RELATIONS—Conrd. (English) MR. CHAIRMAN : we may now take up further discussion on the following Resolution moved by Shri H.M. Patel on the 18th March

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  title = {{Motor Vehicles Bill-Contd.}},
  author = {{Prof. N. Tombi Singh}},
  howpublished = {Lok Sabha Debates, 8th Lok Sabha, Session XI},
  year = {1988},
  date = {1988-08-19},
  publisher = {Lok Sabha Digital Library},
  url = {https://elibrary.sansad.in/items/293e08ae-597d-4736-a439-2dd1d62c9e73}
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