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Maharashtra transport department to set up fitness test track in Nashik

A transport department official said: "There will be automation as state-of-the-art system is being installed to help introduce transparency and diminish any human interference in checking of vehicles. It will contribute in reducing the number of accidents in the city and the state."

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Soon, vehicles will be issued fitness certificates after a series of mechanical tests, instead of the present mode of manually checking the condition of vehicles, particularly the heavy ones.

The mechanical fitness test lane project is shaping up in Nashik, and is likely to be completed later this year. Pune-based Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI) along with Ministry of Transport is implementing the project.

A transport department official said: "There will be automation as state-of-the-art system is being installed to help introduce transparency and diminish any human interference in checking of vehicles. It will contribute in reducing the number of accidents in the city and the state."

The facility will be able to test two heavy vehicles and a light utility vehicle at a time, and tests include braking system, suspension, axle strength among several other parameters.

Spread over four acres, this project is the first of its kind in Maharashtra. Depending upon the outcome, the same project may be set up at Baramati RTO, and thereafter at other RTOs of the state. It will also result in discarding the flawed process of inspection and certification to issue fitness certificate to vehicles.

When the project was kick-started in 2011, its cost was estimated at Rs14 crore, but this is likely to have shot up in the last four years. A memorandum of understanding for it was signed on September 22, 2011.

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