The Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking has not conducted the mandatory Pollution Under Control (PUC) Certificate checks of more than 400 of its vehicles in 2017, thus violating the provisions in the Motor Vehicles Act. “If BEST has conducted PUC certification of only buses, it means it has not done PUC certification of more than 400 vehicles,” he said. Every registered vehicle needs to go through PUC checks every six months, barring new ones, which have valid PUC Certificate for a year. In the RTI query reply, BEST said it has conducted 8,091 and 7,296 checks of buses in 2016 and 2017 respectively. BEST has spent Rs60 per bus for PUC checks and incurred Rs4.85 lakh and Rs4.37 lakh in 2016 and 2017, respectively.

Source: Hindustan Times April 12, 2018 19:07 UTC