PANJIM: As the Traffic Police are ensuring strict compliance of helmet rule, the department has initiated fresh drive to check if the manufacturers and dealers of two-wheelers in Goa are also supplying a protective headgear along with the vehicles sold by them as mandated under the Central Motor Vehicle Rules.
“We are inquiring if the manufacturers and dealers of two-wheelers in Goa are adhering to this rule or not,” DGP Muktesh Chander said in a message circulated to media persons on Thursday.
He stated that Section 138(4)(f) Central Motor Vehicle Rules stipulates that, “At the time of purchase of the two-wheeler, the manufacturer of the two-wheeler shall supply a protective headgear conforming to specifications prescribed by the Bureau of Indian Standards under the Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 1986 (63 of 1986): Provided that these conditions shall not apply to category of persons exempted in terms of Section 129 and the rules made there under by the concerned State Government.”
Chander had recently addressed police force, students and general public insisting on wearing of helmets while riding a two-wheeler. He has also warned of increasing penalty of repeated offenders as prescribed under the Motor Vehicles Act.
