* India - Polluting buses
Rule is not applicable to Government vehicles
Kerala,India -The Hindu (Chennai,India), by Bal Paayyannur -24 April 2007: -- With the increase in the number of vehicles on the roads day by day, pollution has become a cause for great concern and city life is becoming more and more hazardous. As per rules, vehicle owners have to produce a "pollution under control" certificate issued by the authorised agents for getting the fitness certificate from the Road Transport Authority concerned. But, it appears that the rule is not applicable to Government vehicles... If the certificate is made mandatory to public vehicles, no transport bus could be taken to the road... The transport buses emit a good amount of carbon monoxide that cause chronic bronchitis and other respiratory disorders. As per experts, the toxicity of the pollutants exhaled from vehicles is far more than that of smoking. Hence, the insistence of fitness certificates only for private vehicles is nothing but a hoax. The authorities, perhaps, find this a source of revenue to the government. If the authorities were genuinely concerned with the health condition of the public, they would never issue `fitness certificates' to the transport buses. Hapless public are the victims of negligence of the authorities at all times...
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