The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 and Central Motor Vehicle Rules, 1989 as amended from time to time provides for enhanced penalties on violation of traffic rules for better road safety. Enforcement of traffic laws comes under the purview of respective State Governments and UT administrations.

National Highways Authority India (NHAI) has developed a Computer Aided Dispatch System to assist the 1033 call centre operators to locate the nearest available on-road unit (ambulance/crane/patrol unit) and developed NHAI ERS Mobile Application to relay the dispatch related information to the on-road units. This system has been developed to make the response to emergency calls faster.

The technical committees of the Government viz., Central Motor Vehicle Rules-Technical Standing Committee (CMVR-TSC) and Automotive Industry Standards Committee (AISC) has taken up the work to formulate standard on Moving Off Information Systems (MOIS) for vehicles of categories M2 (Category M2 means a motor vehicle used for carriage of passengers, comprising nine or more seats in addition to the driver’s seat and having a maximum Gross Vehicle Weight not exceeding five tonnes), M3 (Category M3 means a motor vehicle used for carriage of passengers, comprising nine or more seats in addition to the driver’s seat and having a Gross Vehicle Weight exceeding five tonnes), N2 (Category N2 means a motor vehicle used for carriage of goods and having a Gross Vehicle Weight exceeding 3.5 tonnes but not exceeding 12 tonnes) and N3 (Category N3 means a motor vehicle used for carriage of goods and having a Gross Vehicle Weight exceeding 12 tonnes).

MOIS is an advanced driver assistance system to aid drivers in low-speed moving off from rest manoeuvres that may involve collisions between above referred category vehicles and vulnerable road users (pedestrians and cyclists). MOlS detects and informs the driver of the presence of pedestrians and cyclists in the close-proximity forward blind-spot of the vehicle.

This information was given by the Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Shri Nitin Gadkari in a written reply to the Lok Sabha today.

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MJPS/NSK