Motor Vehicles Bill panel recommends in-built toilets in buses

A select committee on the Motor Vehicles Amendment Bill, 2017, has recommended every traffic police or RTO official to have body wearable cameras to record offences which should be monitored in the control room, to tackle corruption on the part of the enforcement officials.

The 24-member committee, to which the Motor Vehicles Bill was referred to for examination, presented its report on Friday in Rajya Sabha. It is headed by BJP leader Dr Vinay Sahasrabuddhe.

The committee has also recommended protection to pedestrians, cyclists and bus users. It states that enforcement agencies of the States should scrupulously implement the law to protect the pedestrians, cyclists and the bus users.

It states that the government should "think, while making subordinate legislations, to implement the provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act, to create a consultative mechanism involving the major stakeholders." It further recommended that the long distance buses should have inbuilt toilets, stating that that while formulating the rules the governments should make appropriate provisions to incentivise the contract carriages so that they become part of the public transport system.