Daijiworld Media Network - Panaji (SHP)

Panaji, Jan 14: Goa government will soon make it clear whether the citizens will have to pay higher penalties for traffic violations under the new amended Motor Vehicles Act.

Transport minister, Mauvin Godinho earlier stated that the amended act, has provisions to impose higher penalties and that it would be implemented from January 2020. “I have left it to the wisdom of the cabinet about what we should do. Whether to lower the rates or go as per the original proposal of the new M V Act which is higher,” he told TOI. “The proposal will be placed before the next cabinet," he added.

Earlier after Uttarakhand and Gujarat lowered the fine amount, the attorney general of India made it clear that states are not authorised to bring any change in the acts passed by the Centre.

While the legislation has come into force in other parts of the country, the Goa government deferred its enforcement after the public protested against the terrible road conditions in the state.