UNPOPULAR LAW OF INDIA

The Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act, 2019

The draft of The Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act, 2019 was introduced in the Lok Sabha
on June 15, 2019. It was passed by the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha on July 23, 2019, and
July 31, 2019, respectively. It comes under the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.

India, as a signatory to the Brasilia Declaration on Road Safety of 2015, intended to decrease
road accidents and reduce traffic casualties by 2022. And thus, the amendments to the Motor
Vehicles Act were acted out.

This act proved to be a major cause of upheaval in the lives of numerous people, after most of
the amendments came into effect on September 01, 2019. This meant that driving faults made
enormous blows in monthly budgets. Under this act, penalties were increased multi-fold.
Reports of fines more than or close to the cost of the vehicle were also registered.

Solution:
The fine should not be so much high. It should be of the normal
amount.
It is a fact that some people drive carelessly and endanger not only their lives but also others
who are around them. But the condition of the roads is extremely poor and many a time, it is
the state of the road that is the reason for the accident, rather than the act of the driver.