The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) on 11th November 2022, notified “All India Tourist Vehicles (Permit) Draft Rules, 2022” and has invited objections and suggestions, from the public which shall be addressed to the Joint Secretary (MVL), Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Transport Bhawan, Parliament Street, New Delhi- 110001 or email to comments-morth@gov.in within a period of 30 days.
The key features of the proposed rules are as follows:
1.To simplify the procedure for All India Permit applicants and to reduce compliance burden, the provision of authorization and All India Tourist Permit has been made independent of each other.
2.More categories of tourist vehicles, with lesser permit fees for lesser capacity vehicles (less than ten) have been proposed. This is expected to provide considerable financial relief to smaller tourist operators having smaller vehicles with lower seating capacity as they will now be required to pay lower fees commensurate with the seating capacity of their vehicle(s).
3.To promote deployment of electric vehicles in large numbers a streamlined regulatory ecosystem at no cost to the operator(s) has been proposed.
An application for grant of permit or renewal of permit for a tourist vehicle shall be made to the Transport Authority in Form 1 and the Transport Authority shall issue the permit, within a period of seven days from the date of receipt of application. The permit shall be granted in Form 2 and shall be valid for a period of three months or its multiples thereof not exceeding five years at a time.
