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UP: Digital technology to check overloaded vehicles

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Now, digital technology will be used to check the overloaded vehicles in Uttar Pradesh. With the government keeping a strict eye on vehicles breaking the laws, it has taken action against 18,112 overloaded heavy vehicles and recovered Rs 23 crore as fine.

In a bid to ensure that overloaded vehicles are not able to enter the state, the Uttar Pradesh government is also mulling to study the “Gujarat pattern”, said UP Transport Minister Swatantra Dev Singh.

“Overloading has never been brought under complete control. For the first time in UP, the state government has been able to curtail it, and nearly Rs 16 crore recovered from overloaded vehicles,” he said.

“The Uttar Pradesh government will seek the usage of digital and satellite technology to get rid of the menace of overloading,” he added.

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As the UP government started to charge hefty fines on overloading, it has led to improved earnings for the Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation which has reported a profit of Rs 14 crore from the Rs 10 crore earlier.Singh further added that the department is resolving close to 100 complaints on a daily basis, which pour in from different social media platforms including Twitter and Facebook.

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Explaining the other initiatives taken by the government to maintain road laws, he said, “For the first time, people of the state will be able to know the exact position of the bus in which they intend to travel, as we have started online tracking of buses. The department has developed an app so that passengers can know the exact status of their buses at a single touch. The app is called Track Your Bus. It also gives passengers the option of booking seats,”

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