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The city’s commissioner has said transporters should have the CNG cylinders of their vehicles checked by the authorities to ensure the safety of commuters.

Chairing the 139th meeting of the Regional Transport Authority (RTA) on Sunday, Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui said 90 percent of CNG cylinders installed in public transport vehicles were substandard and therefore posed a serious threat to the passengers travelling in them and other motorists. The commissioner ordered that a team of RTA officials and police should initiate a crackdown against vehicles using sub standard CNG kits and violating traffic rules. He also directed that the public transport vehicles plying without route permits should be challaned. Siddiqui said the home department would be approached to impose Section 144 against the installation of cheap CNG cylinders in vehicles that result in accidents.

RTA Secretary Ghazanfar Ali Qadri told the participants of the meeting that special snap checking was being conducted at various locations in the city along with traffic police officials and INR 31,000 being fined for violating route permits and allowing passngers to travel on the rooftop of buses.

Substandard and improperly installed CNG cylinders were also being seized, he added. On the occasion, DIG Traffic Arif Hanif briefed the participants of the meeting about his department’s management plan for the city.

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