More PUC Centres, extension of time for emission testing of vehicles, demands Jolly

Port Blair, Dec 28: Mr Vishal Jolly, National Executive Member BJP, Member of Home Ministry Advisory Committee, Govt. of India & Former State President BJP A & N has requested the Chief Secretary, A & N Administration to arrange more PUC test Centre each at PBMC Wards, also arranging PUC Centres in Ferrargunj Tehsil and more relaxation in time. In his letter he wrote that after launching “Catch the Polluter” drive and penalizing violator leads a huge rush for conducting PUC test in Port Blair city, there is only limited authorized PUC centre is presently carrying the testing, which are inadequate and insufficient to carry out the PUC testing, as a result the motorists are forced to stand in long queues of 4-5 hours to get their PUC certification. Moreover, there is no facility for conducting PUC tests in Ferrargunj Tehsil and people are forced to go to Port Blair and stand in long queues for the same.
He mentioned that considering the present overcrowd in queues, the Administration has extended the time limit upto 11th January 2022. Despite the above extension of time, the motorists are still in long queues to avoid any unwanted traffic challan.
To streamline the existing procedure, Mr Jolly suggested more PUC testing center may be authorized to conduct the PUC testing in each PBMC Wards, PUC Centres under Ferrargunj Tehsil, PUC testing of all the vehicles may be bifurcated in 02 phases, all Commercial vehicles (Yellow Board) b) Personal/Private vehicle (White Board), all commercial vehicles may be undergo PUC test in the first phase, Personal/Private vehicles (White Board) may undergo PUC test in the second phase and relaxation for all commercial vehicles may be extended upto 31st Jan 2022 and Personal/Private vehicles (White Board) may be extended upto 31st March 2022.
The arrangement will help to streamline the existing network and cope up the need to cater the huge number of vehicles in the city and give relief to the general public and also avoid violation of any COVID-19 protocol including social distancing norm, said Mr Jolly.