On September 13, 2014, the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, - TopicsExpress



          

On September 13, 2014, the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, Government of India (MoRTH), published a draft of the proposed *Road Transport & Safety Bill 2014*. It is a long piece of legislation by Indian standards - about 305 pages - and appears to try and cover anything and everything connected to road transport in one, giant, omnibus legislation. A team at our praja.in, led by Dr Sanjay Vijayraghavan, PhD, has been analysing the draft and putting in our comments, with a view to provide feedback to the ministry, which presumably was the purpose of publishing the draft on their site.* The MoRTH draft as well as the comments by PRAJA members *(anybody who logs in is a member) *may be accessed here *. The closing date has not been mentioned; we are presuming it is still open. And, rather than compile all the feedback into one one omnibus note, we have invited the ministry officials to actively participate in the discussions to help fine-tune the overall outcome. Though, we have not seen any comments from them so far, we would like to believe that they are actively looking into the comments. We believe this is the best way to help evolve a more comprehensive and satisfactory output, through a participative process, and if we can get the MoRTH officials to get involved, it could become a model for such engagements in future. *We invite you all, as also whoever is interested, to join in too, and make your contributions.* Regards, Muralidhar Rao, President, Praja-RAAG *PS:* *Praja-RAAG* (RAAG standing for research, analysis, advocacy group) is a registered society formed of active bloggers on praja.in (Praja, for short). Praja is an e-platform of over 8,000 (regd) citizens, largely techies of Bangalore, engaged in informed debates over various civic issues, with a view to figuring out solutions for them. Where possible, some of these solutions are then pursued on ground through Praja-RAAG. We call PRAJA a virtual hall for debates.
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 07:32:35 +0000

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