Panchkula, Sept. 29 -- The Panchkula administration on Tuesday ordered a crackdown on overloaded dumpers, vehicles with dust-obscured number plates and school buses violating safety norms, with Deputy Commissioner Satpal Sharma directing enforcement agencies to intensify challans and impound offending vehicles.
Chairing a meeting of the District Road Safety Committee and the Safe School Vehicle Policy, Sharma directed the Regional Transport Authority (RTA) to take strict action against overloaded dumpers and those plying with registration plates obscured by dust and mud.
The directions came as RTA Secretary Hairatjeet Kaur informed the meeting that 89 overloaded dumpers were challaned in August. The department also issued challans to 25 v...