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New Delhi: The Delhi Government on Monday put restrictions on officials regarding the number of vehicles they can use. It mandated that no official can use more than one vehicle irrespective of the number of charges an officer held. The order also restricted the use of government vehicle for any private purpose. Further, all the Head of Departments (HODs) were directed to install GPS-enabled tracking devices in all the government vehicles.
“It has come to the notice of the government that many officers are using more than one official vehicle on the ground that they are holding additional charges. It is, therefore, ordered that the entitled officers shall use only one government vehicle irrespective of the number of charges they are holding,” the order stated.
The General Administration Department (GAD) said GPS-enabled tracking devices should be installed also in the vehicles of corporations, board and other government agencies. Vehicles hired from private contractors should also be GPS-enabled. It directed that no vehicle will run without GPS trackers from next month.
“The finance Department should ensure that there is a regular periodic audit of the government vehicles. General pool for vehicles be restricted to the department where there are functional exigencies,” it stated. “Allotment of vehicles to an entitled officer will be done through an executive order by name so that responsibility can be fixed in case of misuse,” it further read.
The government wants a software developed to link logbook generation with the movement of vehicles tracked by GPS.
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