Executive Summary:
This notification, issued by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways on May 1, 2017, specifies that certain vehicles used for emergency and disaster management duties are allowed to use multi-colored red, blue, and white lights. It outlines the conditions for using these lights, mandates the issuance of public notices and stickers by State/UT Transport Departments, and sets the format and security features for the stickers. The stickers must be displayed on the vehicles' windscreens.
Key Points / Main Content:
Multi-Colored Light Usage:
* Vehicles designated for emergency and disaster management duties can use multi-colored red, blue, and white lights.
* Authorized duties include: fire control; law and order maintenance by police, defense, or paramilitary forces; and management of natural and man-made disasters.
* The multi-colored lights can only be used when the vehicle is on designated duty.
Sticker and Public Notice Requirements:
* Each year, the State/UT Transport Department must issue a public notice listing the authorities permitted to use specified vehicles.
* Authorized vehicles must display a sticker issued by the Transport Department on their windscreen.
* Only one sticker is issued per vehicle for the designated officer at a time.
Sticker Format and Security:
* The sticker format includes: Government of (State/UT name), Designation of the Officer, Vehicle Number.
* Stickers must be on security-printed watermarked paper and include a hologram as specified by the State/UT Transport Department.
Impact Analysis:
State and Union Territory Transport Departments:
* Impact: Responsible for issuing public notices listing authorized vehicles and providing the specified stickers.
* Action Required: Create and disseminate public notices annually, design and issue stickers with required security features (watermark, hologram), and maintain records of sticker distribution.
Emergency and Disaster Management Authorities:
* Impact: Can use multi-colored lights on vehicles during designated duties.
* Action Required: Ensure that the lights are only used when the vehicle is on designated duty.
Designated Officers:
* Impact: Authorized to use the sticker on their vehicle.
* Action Required: Affix the sticker to the vehicle's windscreen.
General Public:
* Impact: Informed through public notices about authorized vehicles using multi-colored lights.
* Action Required: None
Key Entities Referenced
Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989: A set of rules established by the Central Government of India concerning motor vehicles.
Ministry of Road Transport and Highways: The government ministry responsible for road transport and highways in India. The ministry that published the notification.
New Delhi: The capital city of India, where the notification was issued.
police: Law enforcement agencies responsible for maintaining law and order.
defence forces: The military forces responsible for the defense of the country.
paramilitary forces: Forces that are not part of a country's formal armed forces, but are similar to military organizations.
Transport Department of the State or Union territory Administration: The department responsible for transportation-related matters in a State or Union Territory in India.
Abhay Damle: Joint Secretary who issued the notification.
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MINISTRY OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 1st May, 2017
S.O. 1374(E).—In pursuance of powers conferred under sub-rule 4 of rule 108 of the Central Motor Vehicles
Rules, 1989, the Central Government hereby specifies that the vehicles on office duty which are designated for the
following emergency and disaster management duties may be allowed to use multi coloured red, blue and white light on
its top, namely :-
(a) the duties relating to control of fire;
(b) the duties by police, defence forces or paramilitary forces for maintenance of law and order;
(c) the duties relating to management of natural disasters including earthquake, flood, land slide, cyclone,
tsunami and manmade disasters including nucleardisaster, chemical disasterand biological disaster.
2. The multi coloured light shall not be put to use when the vehicle is not on the designated duty.
3. Every year, the Transport Department of the State or Union territory Administration, as the case may be, shall
issue a public notice bringing to the notice of the general public the list of authorities to whom the permission to use the
vehicles specified in clauses (a) and (b) of paragraph 1 has been granted and such vehicles shall display on its
windscreenthe sticker issued by such Transport Department which shall be in the following format, namely:-
“Government of (name of issuing State Government of Union territory Administrations)
Designation of the Officer (s)……………
Vehicle Number…………………………..”.
4. Only one sticker shall be issued to the designated officer for one vehicle at one point of time.
5. The sticker shall be on security printed water mark paper and shall carry hologram as specified by the Transport
Department of the concerned State Government or Union Territory Administration.
[F. No. RT-11036/24/2017-MVL]
ABHAY DAMLE, Jt. Secy.
Note: The principal notification was published vide number G.S.R. 590(E) dated the 2nd June, 1989.
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