Rajya Sabha passes amendments to Motor Vehicles Bill
Live MintIn what may overhaul the country’s transportation system, the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday passed the proposed amendments to the Motor Vehicles Bill, 2019. The bill aims to address crucial issues such as road safety, reducing deaths due to road accidents, imposing stiffer penalties on violation of rules, and weed out corruption in India’s road transport system. The Opposition on Wednesday however, alleged that the Centre has misled Rajya Sabha on the Motor Vehicles Bill as it was "defective" and not in the form passed in Lok Sabha last week. It has come to this House without taking approval from the other House," In a first, the government will develop a system for cashless treatment of road accident victims during the golden hour -- time period lasting one hour after a traumatic injury during which there is the highest likelihood of preventing death by providing medical care.