Cabinet approves Motor Vehicle (Amendment) Bill 2016

Union Cabinet has approved Motor Vehicle (Amendment) Bill 2016 to improve road safety in the country. The bill proposes to increase penalties against traffic violations to as deterrent measure.  It also has stricter provisions for offences like juvenile driving, drunken driving and driving without licence. 

An official release said, compensation for hit-and-run cases has been hiked from 25,000 rupees to two lakh



rupees and in case of fatality it will up to 10 lakh rupees. 

Driving without insurance will attract 2,000 rupees fine and/or imprisonment, two thousand rupees fine and licence suspension for helmet-less driving. Besides, for drunken driving steep penalty of up to 10,000 rupees has been proposed. 

Every year 5 lakh road accidents are reported in the country in which 1.5 lakh people lose their lives.