Team Herald
PANJIM: Without elaborating when the new fines under the new Motor Vehicles Act would come into force in the State, Transport Minister Mauvin Godinho said that the State would not tinker with the fines proposed in the act.
Speaking at a Road Safety week function, Godinho said that the State will enforce the Act and fines as amended by the Centre.
“Goa will not follow the Gujarat model,” he said.
Godinho said that the Attorney General has said that States would not alter fines.
The transport minister said that the fines are not a punishment or to raise revenue but to impose discipline.
“People should not get offended by the new Act and fines,” he said adding, “The proposal will be placed before the next Cabinet and thereafter the Act would be implemented in Goa.”
After Uttarakhand and Gujarat lowered the fine amount, the Attorney General of India made it clear that States are not authorised to bring any change in the Act passed by the Centre.
While the legislation has come into force in other parts of the country, the Goa government deferred its enforcement after the public protested against the terrible road conditions in the State.
