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Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill passed in Rajya Sabha: Here's list of penalties, punishments

The bill, which seeks to weed out corruption, improve road safety and usher in use of technology to regulate traffic, has already been passed by the Lok Sabha last week.

Aniruddha Dhar

31 Jul 2019 22:23 IST

Updated On 01 Aug 2019 00:29 IST

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The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday passed the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2019 with 108 votes in its favour and 13 against. The Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2019 aims to infuse more discipline on roads by tightening rules and increasing penalities.Â

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The bill, which seeks to weed out corruption, improve road safety and usher in use of technology to regulate traffic, has already been passed by the Lok Sabha last week. The bill was passed by a voice vote rejecting several amendments moved by the Opposition.

It also brings a sea change in how Indian roads and vehicular transportation are governed. Stating that maximum road accidents in the world occur in India, Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari noted that annually about five lakh road accidents take place in the country, in which there are 1.5 lakh deaths and 65 per cent of them are youth.

Proposed amendments in various penalties under Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2019:

General (177)	Rs 100	Rs 500
Rules of road regulation violation (new 177A)	Rs. 100	Rs 500
Travelling without a ticket (178)	Rs 200	Rs 500
Disobedience of orders of authorities (179)	Rs 500	Rs 2000
Unauthorized use of vehicles without licence (180)	Rs 1000	Rs 5000
Driving without licence (181)	Rs 500	Rs 5000
Driving without qualification (182)	Rs 500	Rs 10,000
Oversized vehicles (182B)	New	Rs 5000
Over speeding (183)	Rs 400	Rs 1000 for LMV, Rs 2000 for Medium Passenger Vehicle
Dangerous driving penalty (184)	Rs. 1,000	Upto Rs 5000
Drunken driving (185)	Rs 2000	Rs 10,000
Speeding/ Racing (189)	Rs 500	Rs 5,000
Vehicle without permit (192A)	Upto Rs 5000	Upto Rs 10,000
Aggregators (violations of licencing conditions) (193)	New	Rs 25,000 to Rs 1,00,000
Overloading (194)	Rs 2,000, and Rs 1,000 per extra tonne	Rs 20,000, and Rs 2,000 per extra tonne
Overloading of Passengers (194A)	N.A.	Rs 1000 per extra passenger
Seat Belt (194 B)	Rs 100	Rs 1,000
Overloading of two-wheelers (194 C)	Rs 100	Rs 2,000 , Disqualification of licence for 3 months
Not providing way for emergency vehicles (194E)	New	Rs 10,000
Driving without insuarance (196)	Rs 1,000	Rs 2,000
Offences by Juveniles (199)	New	Guardian/ Owner shall be deemed guilty. Rs 25,000 with 3 years imprisonment. Juvenile to be tried under JJ Act. Registration of Motor Vehicle to be cancelled.
Power of officers to impound documents (206)	N.A.	Suspension of driving licence under sections 183, 184, 185, 189, 190, 194C, 194D, 194E,
Offences committed by enforcing authorities (210B)	N.A.	Twice the penalty under the relevant section

Other rules:

AnÂ Aadhaar card would become mandatory to procure a driving licence or vehicle registration.
Citizens who help a person injured in an accident won't be liable to face any civil or criminal action for any injury to or death of an accident victim caused due to their negligence in providing assistance to the victim.
The cap on liabilitiesÂ on third party insuranceÂ will be removed completely. Earlier, the compensation was capped at Rs 10 lakh for death and Rs 5 lakh for injuries.
The compensation for hit-and-run casesÂ will be increased to Rs 2 lakh in the case of a death and Rs 50,000Â over injuries. The government also plans to make treatment during the golden hour cashless.

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