DC notifies goods transport vehicles

A day after the state government prohibited movement of transport vehicles beyond three-axle along National Highway-29 stretch starting July 18, 2022 to August 11, 2022, the deputy commissioner (DC) Dimapur has informed that any goods transport vehicles should carry only the permissible weight as per the registration certificate and obtain a weighing measure certificate from the weighing station.
In a notification, DC Dimapur Sachin Jaiswal informed that the weight station under Dimapur and Chumoukedima districts was located at: Sarawgi Weight Bridge, Golaghat Road, Dimapur; OM Weight Bridge, Diphu Road, near Dimapur Government College, Dimapur and 7th Mile Inter-State Truck Terminal, Chumoukedima.
Under Section 194 of the MV Act 1988, DC said the overloaded vehicles would not be allowed to ply and all offenders would be liable to be punished with a fine of Rs. 20,000 and an additional amount of Rs. 2000 per tonne of excess load, together with the liability to pay charges for offloading of excess load.
Besides prohibiting movement of any transport vehicles beyond three-axle along NH-29 stretch, the government on Monday informed that upward journey of the loaded vehicles would not be permitted from Dimapur with effect from July 15, 2022 midnight.