Latest update: Now you can carry your essential documents on your mobile phone and it's not necessary to take a physical copy explained by the ministry department. You should have to show the scan copy of your documents if you forget the physical one somehow.

The amendment of the new motor vehicle act 2019 in which heavier penalties and fines were imposed by the government came into force from September 1st, 2019.

Was it mandatory to do so? 

Before knowing it let's see the updated fine.

S.no	Offence	New Penalty
1.	Driving without licence	Rs 500/-
2.	Driving after the disqualification of driving licence	Rs 10000/-
3.	No Helmet	Rs 1000/-  or Disqualification of licence for 3 months.
4.	Driving without insurance	Rs 2000/- or imprisonment for 3 months and after first offence the fine will increase to Rs 4000/- or imprisonment of 3 months.
5.	Driving without pollution certificate	Rs 10000/-
6.	Without high-security registration plate (HSPR No)	Rs 500/-
7.	Not wearing shoes and proper dress	Rs 1000/-
8.	Driving without an RC	Rs 5000/-
9.	Tripling on two-wheeler	Rs 2000/- or disqualification of licence for 3 months.
10.	No seat belt	Rs 1000/-
11.	Drink driving	Rs 10000/- imprisonment up to 6 months to 1 year or Rs 15000/- and imprisonment up to 2 years after 1st offence.
12.	Obstruction of traffic	Rs 500/-
13.	Overloading of passenger	Rs 1000/person
14.	Not providing a way for an ambulance	Rs 10000/-
15.	Violation of road regulation	Rs 500/-
16.	Not fit for the drive (mentally or physically)	Rs 1000/- for Ist offence and Rs 2000/- after it.
17.	Jumping red light	Rs 1000 - Rs 5000 or imprisonment of 6 months to 1 year, licence seize, and after first time the penalty will increase to Rs 10000/- or imprisonment of 2 years.
18.	Over speeding	Rs 1000/- to Rs 2000/- for Light motor vehicle and Rs 2000/- to Rs 4000/- for Heavy transport vehicle.
19.	Racing	Rs 5000/- or 1-month imprisonment for 1st offence, Rs10000/- and 1-month imprisonment after the first.
20.	Overloading of product	Rs 20000/- and Rs 2000/- for extra tonne.
21.	Vehicles without a permit	Rs10000/- or imprisonment of 6 months.
22.	Under age driving	Rs 25000/- for guardian/owner with 3-year imprisonment & cancellation of registration of the vehicle for 12months and Child may have to face juvenile act.

Note:- These updated charges are not applicable in some state like West Bengal, Punjab, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharastra as they deny on imposing the heavy fines.

Now, this is the most important for you that you can save your fine charge.

So how can you save your fine.?

If you get fine by the traffic police for not having essential documents with you. In such a situation you don't have to hassle. However if you claim that you have forgotten the documents, he will merely fine you Rs 100 and you have 15 days to approach the proper authorities with your documents and pay Rs 100 instead of full amount explained by the police officer "Sunil sandu". Hence this is the way that you save your heavy fine, But it is not applied for drink driving and driving without a helmet. 

Now is it mandatory for the government to impose such a heavy penalty on traffic?

Most of us will say 'YES' in favour of this.

See what youth has to say on the new traffic updates.

@Aman Singh via Instagram

" There should be mild traffic rules. So everyone would follow.. If traffic rules are too hard. Some people did not obey and result in accidents too. It has to be, People should not be afraid of traffic police. They should have a feeling to follow traffic rules for everyone's safety. Police should not be that hard that people try to flee and sometimes results in accidents."

@Abhitesh via Instagram

" I think this is not going to happen due to the increase in charge. A lot of vehicles get caught in checking and with little money the police let them go.

Because of this, in today's world, people consider the police hungry for money. Every day I am watching the video of police beating & having clashed with people for fines or penalty. seeing it all hurts.

They can do better than this, For example, like, now more action is being taken on people regarding helmets, which is a good thing. I want the police to punish those people & buy them new helmets with their money. so that next time people can't make some kind of excuse. Doing this will increase both the name & respect of the police in the country. It can be done very easily. "

It benefits 3 people.

1. Helmet sellers

2. The police (Respect and Name)

3. Public safety

@ishita via Instagram

"The traffic rules that are applied now are quite good Its actually all done for the safety of people itself So there is nothing wrong about it."

@prashant via Instagram

"No its right action for people safety, Public does not improve with small fines. Due to the Highest road accident deaths in India its the good step taken by the government. For this there should not be  a strike, it hurts the public only. The government has to take strict actions against these unlawful activators. 

When you drive it's your responsibility to keep all documents with you... And its good habit, Over 70% of people don't use seat belts and helmet. people used to say that there should be strict rules for traffic and today they are in trouble of adapting this."

Now if we see the survey on road accidents in our country, it is about 1.49 lakhs death in 2018. where Uttar Pradesh registered maximum death and Tamil Nadu was the lowest.

Every day we are listening the penalty of Rs 15000/-, Rs 20000/-, Rs 25000/- was imposed and the highest penalty recorded was Rs 600000/- on truck owner in Odessa. But in spite of it, we have to understand that the major cause of increasing the road accident is not following the traffic rules and guidance accordingly. And for the long term, this updated traffic rule is good for us.

Something that the government also has to do is to fix the roads according to traffic regulations so that the accident should be minimized more and to make aware the people about traffic rules, In this our traffic cops can play a major role to aware the people.

These days we are watching so many clashes between traffic cops and the people. Here we have to understand the fact that these rules and regulations are for our safety purpose & we should have to follow the traffic rules and carry the proper documents with safety gear like (Helmet, Shoes, proper dress) while driving. Our suggestion for you is, make a scanned copy of your documents and save it to your phone you can also use an app like DigiLocker or m-parivahan platform to save your essential documents and drive hassle free.

Thank you...

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