States struggling to install speed governors in comm vehicles:

Many states, including Rajasthan, are struggling to implement the Supreme Court's order on installation of speed governors in commercial vehicles, National Road Safety Council member Kamal Soi said today.
"Only eight or ten states have the integrated serial and the model number of speed limiting devices (SLDs) with VAHAN database for quick audit and retrieval of records through a comprehensive Management Information System (MIS) and rest of them are still struggling to implement it," he told a press conference here.
He said that corrupt practises and non-implementation of SLDs were leading to rise in road accidents and deaths of innocent people in states, including Rajasthan.

"The government had made fitting of SLDs compulsory for transport vehicles from January 31. As per Ministry of Road Transport and Highways notification dated May 1, all yellow number plate vehicles, except three-wheelers, it is mandatory to install SLDs. The Supreme Court in April had issued directives for fitting of SLDs to all states and UTs but to no avail," Soi added.
Sharing the data on number of road accidents, injuries and death in Rajasthan, he said as per the National Crime Record Bureau report for the year 2015, Rajasthan reported 24,072 road accidents with 26,153 injuries and 10,510 deaths.

"Over-speeding is reported to be one of the main reasons for the road accidents and accounts for over 40-50 per cent of the total incidents," he said.
He also claimed that in some states unapproved and uncertified SLDs were being installed in transport vehicles without keeping any record of their serial numbers, model numbers or testing details.