You Could Lose Licence For 3 Months For Breaking Traffic Rules in Maharashtra

You Could Lose Licence For 3 Months For Breaking Traffic Rules in Maharashtra

From now on, if you are caught breaking the traffic rules in cities like Mumbai and Pune in Maharashtra, you may lose your licence straight for 3 months. The need for such stringent measures have arisen because more than 35,800 road crashes were reported in Maharashtra last year, which led to over 12,200 fatalities.

Traffic violators or those flouting road rules in any way may no longer be able to get away simply by paying a minimal fee to traffic officers for violations like speeding and using a mobile phone while driving. They were given e-challans under the Motor Vehicles Act till now but the rules have been mended  the violators will have their licences confiscated and suspended for three months.

According to the traffic guiding rules, these six violations may result in the suspension of one’s driving licence: speeding, drink driving, jumping signals, talking on the phone while driving, ferrying passengers in a commercial vehicle and overloading the commercial vehicle.

Traffic controllers have already sent out a memo to all traffic police branches in Maharashtra to implement the three-year-old government resolution stating a suspension of driving licence to those using mobile phones while driving. A ‘zero tolerance’ approach has begun on the Pune-Mumbai Expressway and will soon be followed by the state governments on other highways as well.

The stringent measures look like it’ll genuinely help the road scenes in Maharashtra, especially the rural areas where its most needed.