School vans need to have route permits: traffic police

The City Traffic Police Rawalpindi requests the district administration to impose a ban on CNG cylinder-fitted vans

RAWALPINDI: The City Traffic Police (CTP) Rawalpindi requested the authorities concerned to issue special route permits to all school vans besides introducing a registration system for the vehicles being used for pick and drop facility for the school children, said a CTP spokesman.

He said, the CTP had requested the district administration to impose a ban on CNG cylinder-fitted school vans.

The administration had also been urged to direct the District and Regional Transport Authority to issue fitness certificates to the school vans after proper checking of the vehicles.

He informed that the CTP had started action against substandard CNG cylinder-fitted school vans.

The traffic police had found a number of school vans fitted with CNG cylinders underneath seats which is not only dangerous but also illegal defined under section 199/122 of Motor Vehicles Ordinance 1965, he added.

“It is therefore decided that an active campaign should be initiated against the violators. For this purpose, a special team was deputed to take strict legal action under the supervision of senior officers,” he informed.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 24^th, 2019.