The state government has decided that fitness tests of commercial vehicles will now be held at any of the regional transport offices or public vehicles departments. Till now, owners would have to report for the mandatory test at the place where the vehicle had been registered.
Transport secretary Rajesh Kumar Sinha issued a notice on Tuesday saying that registering authorities at any of the centres where the tests are held can issue fitness certificates from now on irrespective of the vehicle’s place of registration.
Fitness tests are held to check if a commercial vehicle is road-worthy and all its machineries are fully operational.
Senior officers of the transport department said this will do away with the trouble of traveling long distances to report to specific registering authorities with the vehicles for fitness tests at a time when Covid numbers are rising.
Several bus and truck owners welcomed the move.