Old Shipping laws will be changed in India. Nitin Gadkari who
is a Union Transport Minister said in the meeting organized by the Madras
Chamber of Commerce and Industry that all laws are old and should be thrown
out. He told that we too backward in the Shipping and need all kind of
infrastructure. Motorcycle Act 1988 is too old and need to be changed and the
government is thinking about it seriously and will doing the necessary changes
soon.
He also said that there is no need of regional transport
office (RTO) as there is corruption of crores of rupees in the departments
which should be curbed there should be transparency in the system and
government has already started the work.
Most of the things will done through online system and if somebody
violates the rules his license will immediately cancelled and further checks
will also be done that whether he has violated any rules earlier also.
It was also informed in the meet that Narendra Modi has
decided to make 9 joint ventures for building ships and looking for partners
from outside and inside of India, In fact one company has already approached
them for the joint venture. Similarly government also wants to finalize the
joint venture for breaking of ships.
Government is also eager to clear the defense project which
were pending for long and have made a project management consultancy which
would be responsible to clear nearly 500 pending projects.
