Inspection and Certification Center at Baddi
With the financial assistance of MoRTH, the Transport Department is in the process of establishing a Modal “ Inspection and Certification Center” at Baddi at a cost of ₹ 1635 lakhs which is going to be completed very shortly. This will be an Automated Testing Centers for fitness of vehicles through automated equipment for grant of Certificate of Fitness.
Poor maintenance and servicing of vehicles not only pollute the environment but also pose a great road safety hazard. By manual mechanical inspection of vehicles, there are chances of human interference due to certain issues but “ Inspection and Certification Center” will provide up to the mark services for the inspection of the vehicles and issuing a certificate with zero(0) human intervention. This will certainly bring transparency in the working of Transport Department and Safety and security of the vehicles and road users will be ensured.
On the successful execution of this Modal Inspection and Certification Center at Baddi, further to provide this service throughout the State, mobile vehicle “ Inspection and Certification Center” will be deployed at different appropriate places.
Vehicle Location Tracking Device (VLTD)
The Transport Department has established a Command and Control Center for effective implementation of Vehicle Location Tracking Device (VLTD) in the Directorate of Transport by entering into an agreement with C-DAC in the month of 2021. As per the Notification issued by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways(MoRTH) dated 31-10-2018 regarding fitment of vehicles Location Tracking Device and Panic Buttons, all the public service vehicles registered on and after 1st January, 2019 have to be fitted with VLTD and Panic Buttons. These devices will also be fitted in the vehicles registered up to 31-12-2018 in due course of time.
VLTD and emergency button will be very helpful for raising alert in case of any emergency for the safety of passengers especially for children and women. In order to ensure the safer travelling for the passengers and providing them real time emergency response support system, the Command and Control Centre has been integrated with ERSS-112 Himachal Pradesh is the first State in India to have VLTD integration with ERSS-112. Under ERSS, all the Police Stations vehicles in the State are fitted with GPS system and as and when any complaint is received in the control room, irrespective of territorial jurisdiction of a particular Police Station, alert will be sent to the nearest Police vehicle of the location of incident.