Praveen Gedam, Commissioner, State Transport, confirmed that the notification had not reached them even on Monday.
The ban on red beacons was a 'voluntary compliance' affair on its first day on Monday as neither the State Transport Department nor the traffic police had the 'legal framework' to implement it. The final notification of the changes in the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989, which brought about the red beacon ban, is yet to reach the state from the Centre.
Praveen Gedam, Commissioner, State Transport, confirmed that the notification had not reached them even on Monday. When asked whether the lack of a final notification was a dampener, Amitesh Kumar, Joint Commissioner of Police (traffic), Mumbai, said that in the absence of a notification banning the blanket use, enforcing the ban was not possible. "It has to be voluntary for the time-being," Kumar said.
Officials said that May 1 being a labour day holiday across the country might be the reason why the notification did not arrive. However, technical issues are also a reason behind the delay.
The draft notification underlining the ban was issued in the Gazette of India by the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) on April 20. However, it carried a mandatory notice that the 'said draft shall be taken into consideration after the expiry of a period of 10 days from the date on which copies of this notification as published in the Gazette of India are made available to the public'.
The period of ten days, officials pointed out, ended either on Sunday evening or on Monday evening, depending on when the first copies might have reached the public after the April 20 publishing of the Gazette notification. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced the ban on May 19 after a cabinet meet.
"We are expecting the notification any time now. Then, work on implementing the ban in the right earnest will begin," said an official.
ANALYSIS: While the action of the government is commendable, it would have been better if the timeline for the paperwork was not kept this tight
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