Illegal Business thieving in Transport Department Fancy Number Plate Issue; White number plates yielding black money Port Blair, July 28: Believe it or not white number plates issued by Transport Department are yielding unbelievable amount of Black money for some selected officials of the department. Although everybody knows about it no one really talks about it. Everywhere in the world Fancy Registration Plates for vehicles are considered as status symbol, for which there are many filthy rich and self declared influential people, who are ready to pay any big amount. Taking advantage of this situation, some staffs of Transport Department have opened an illegal business of allotting these vanity numbers to high profile businessmen and influential people. These numbers are allotted with a lot of secrecy that even staffs sitting on the next table do not come know about this allotment and the amount obtained from these deals are shared by the ‘fixers’. A little bird told Andaman Express that at present vanity numbers of present series and coming few series have either been already allotted to high profile people or are blocked for future’s illegal deals. There is no doubt that some senior officers, who are putting their signature on the allotment letter are taking the major cut of the illegal amount and only because of them this illegal business is running. The Chief Secretary must intervene into this matter and direct the Secretary-cum-director to immediately block all vanity numbers and issue them by the mean of auction or serial wise. The BSNL issues vanity number only to those customers who pay an extra amount of nearly Rs. 2000, which is a completely legal and transparent process. Why can’t transport department introduce the same rule?
Posted on: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 09:57:09 +0000