Transport Dept instructions to drivers, conductors to wear badges

by Haryananewswire

CHANDIGARH, JAN 17

 Haryana Transport Department has issued instructions on the issue of badges to the   drivers and conductors of public services vehicles   as under the provisions of the Haryana Motor Vehicles Rules, 1993 it is mandatory for drivers and conductors of the stage carriage or contract carriage vehicles to display the badges issued to them by the concerned licensing authority.

While  stating this here today, Director General, Transport, Haryana, Mrs Sumita Misra said that it has been observed that the drivers or conductors of such vehicles are not displaying the badge as required by the above said rules. It has also come to notice that the badges are not being obtained or issued in many cases. Therefore, a written communication has been sent to all Secretaries of the Regional Transport Authorities urging them to take further action to issue driver and conductor badges to the crew of the public service vehicles plying in their respective areas in the form and specifications contained in the first schedule to the Haryana Motor Vehicles Rules, 1993.

Mrs Misra said that as per the said rules, the driver of a stage carriage or a contract carriage shall display on his left breast, a metal badge, in the form specified in the first schedule of these rules, issued to him by the concerned licensing authority and inscribed with the name of the authority by which an authorization to drive a stage carriage or a contract carriage has been granted. The badge also bears the word, “DRIVER” together with an identification number.

While referring to the issue of Conductor Badge, she said that the conductor of a state carriage shall also display on his left breast a metal badge in the form specified in the first schedule to these rules issued by the licensing authority inscribed with the name of the licensing  authority, by whom the conductor’s licence is granted, and the word “Conductor” together with the identification number.

She said that the driver and conductor would not hold more than one badge.  The fee for the issue of a badge to a driver shall be Rs 10  and for conductor it would be Rs five. If the badge is lost or destroyed , a duplicate badge would be issued by the authority by which it was issued on payment of Rs ten.

She said that no driver shall lend or transfer the badge issued to him to any other person and no driver shall wear a badge other than one issued to him by the licensing authority. She said that any person finding a driver’s badge shall, unless he returns the same to the holder, forthwith surrender it to the licensing authority by which it was issued or to a police officer of the nearest police station. If at any time the authorization on a driver’s licence entitling him to drive a stage carriage or a contract carriage is suspended or revoked by any licensing authority or by any Court or ceases to be valid by the efflux of time, the driver shall surrender the badge to the authority by which it was issued within seven days from the date of suspension or revocation or from the date of expiry of the licence, as the case may be.

Mrs Misra said that if at any time a conductor is disqualified for holding conductor’s licence or his licence is revoked by the licensing authority or by any court or if it ceases to be valid by the efflux of time, the conductor shall within seven days from such disqualification or revocation or efflux, as the case may be, surrender the badge to the authority by which it was issued.

She said that the Secretaries of the Regional Transport Authorities have also been urged  to adhere  to these instructions in letter and spirit and compliance report be sent to the office of Transport Commissioner.