New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha has cleared the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2019 that aims to improve road safety, facilitate citizens in their dealings with transport departments, strengthen rural transport, public transport and last mile connectivity through automation, computerization and online services.


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In the area of road safety, the Bill proposes to increase penalties to act as deterrent against traffic violations. Stricter provisions are being proposed in respect of offences like juvenile driving, drunken driving, driving without licence, dangerous driving, over-speeding, overloading etc.  Stricter provisions for helmets have been introduced along with provisions for electronic detection of violations.  Penalty regarding motor vehicles is to be increased by 10 % every year.


The new Motor Vehicle Amendment Bill 2019 has revised traffic rule penalties. Here are the proposed amendments in various penalties under Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill – 2019


Section
 
Old Provision / Penalty
New Proposed Provision / Minimum Penalties

177
General
Rs 100
Rs 500

New 177A
Rules of road regulation violation
Rs 100
Rs 500

178
Travel without ticket
RS 200
Rs 500

179
Disobedience of orders of authorities
Rs 500
Rs 2000

180
Unautorized use of vehicles without licence
Rs 1000
Rs 5000

181
Driving without licence
Rs 500
Rs 5000

182
Driving despite disqualification
Rs 500
Rs 10,000

182 B
Oversize vehicles
New
Rs 5000

183
Over speeding
Rs 400
Rs 1000 for LMV

Rs 2000 for Medium passenger vehicle

184
Dangerous driving penalty
Rs 1000
Upto Rs 5000

185
Drunken driving
Rs 2000
Rs 10,000

189
Speeding / Racing
Rs 500
Rs 5,000

192 A
Vehicle without permit
upto Rs 5000
Upto Rs 10,000

193
Aggregators (violations of licencing conditions)
New
Rs 25,000 to

Rs 1,00,000

194
Overloading
Rs 2000 and

Rs 1000 per extra tonne
Rs 20,000 and

Rs 2000 per extra tonne

194 A
Overloading of passengers
 
Rs 1000 per extra passenger

194 B
Seat belt
Rs 100
Rs 1000

194 C
Overloading of two wheelers
Rs 100
Rs 2000, Disqualification for 3 months for licence

194 D
Helmets
Rs 100
Rs 1000 Disqualification for 3 months for licence

194 E
Not providing way for emergency vehicles
New
Rs 10,000

196
Driving Without Insurance
RS 1000
Rs 2000

199
Offences by Juveniles
New
Guardian
/ owner shall be deemed to be guilty. Rs 25,000 with 3 yrs
imprisonment. For Juvenile to be tried under JJ Act. Registration of
Motor Vehicle to be cancelled

206
Power of Officers to impound documents
 
Suspension of driving licenses u/s 183, 184, 185, 189, 190, 194C, 194D, 194E

210 B
Offences committed by enforcing authorities
 
Twice the penalty under the relevant section

The Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2019 is based on the recommendations of the Group of Transport Ministers (GoM) of States constituted by the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways.


The Bill has been passed with three government amendments and will need to go back to Lok Sabha. The Lok Sabha had already passed the Bill on the 23rd of July 2019.