Skip to main content

You Can't Even Take A Cab If You Are Drunk In Kerala. Yes, That's The New Law.

We all are aware how detrimental drunk driving can be, which is why we the government along with various organizations promote the use of cabs when inebriated. -Src


However, in what looks self-perilous act, a new regulation in Kerala prohibits rivers not only from driving while intoxicated but also taking inebriated passengers along.

Indiatimes
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways' latest mission is 'Motor Vehicles driving regulation 2017' - the MVR which has come into effect on June 23. The law bars drivers from carrying drunk passengers and demands all drivers to comply with the law. 

AM @AmIndia1947
Replying to @latasrinivasan @NewsX
Kerala govt. ⬇️ liquor tax, they gonna charge drivers carrying drunk passengers, drunk driving is illegal, drunkers should book hotel room😂
2:19 PM - Aug 14, 2017
Twitter Ads info and privacy
“The driver shall strictly comply with the laws for the time being in force relating to the prohibition on the consumption of alcohol and drugs and smoking, and also ensure compliance there by the other crew, riders and passengers if any,” says rule 5 of the MVR 2017, which describes the duties of drivers and riders. 
timesofindia
TIMESOFINDIA
According to the law, it is now driver's duty to be informed about the passenger's inebriated state and ensure that he doesn't let anyone board who is drunk. In case they fail to do so, they will be punished 

Pravin Snow @PravinVejan
Replying to @latasrinivasan @NewsX
What?! What's the rational behind such a rule.
11:59 AM - Aug 14, 2017
Twitter Ads info and privacy

Though the rule has become official, the government is yet to implement it, serving as a relief to all the drivers. It's a fact that Ola and Uber's drivers make the most during the night as most people hail the cab because they're inebria“How to rightly implement the rule still remains as a question. Prohibition of alcohol to fellow passengers is just one section of the new regulation. In the new guidelines, there are more than 40 rules and 500 sub-rules.“ said an MVD official, reports ted. If this rule comes into action, they will lose a lot of business.

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Watching Soap Operas with the Repo Men:

Watching Soap Operas with the Repo Men; Credit:  Unsplash When they kidnapped me the third time I remembered the coins in their mouths. The shape of a quarter pressed out against their cheeks. I like the way her hair smells, one of them said. Another smacked the man hard and said, we’re here to do a job not sample the merchandise. Back then we all used Johnson & Johnson’s baby shampoo, you know, the one that promised no more tears  and we laughed because we were nothing if not mournful. Our home was a bank and sadness filled the vaults — but that’s not important now. What you need to know is that four men stood over my bed and apologized for what they were about to do. These were the kind of men who walked through your front door without masks because they already had a set of your keys. Consider us repo men, they said the first time, and you’re what we like to call  collateral . One of them, who bore a remarkable resemblance to Tom Selleck in h...
Post a Comment
Read more

A Family Murder in the Colombian Jungle;

A Family Murder in the Colombian Jungle; How the surrender of the FARC helped bring closure to a mystery Santa Marta | Stefanen Ator/Public Domain/Flickr Here is what I know for sure: Nearly 10 years ago, my aunt Adita was kidnapped from her home one morning in Santa Marta, a beach town on Colombia ’s Caribbean coast. Hours after her disappearance, she was found dead on the side of a dusty road in the nearby Sierra Nevada mountains. The violent murder of Adita Perez is one shrouded in mystery. Her kidnappers were mysteriously killed before questioning and no one was ever charged with her death. Some say she was killed on the side of the road and then set aflame (a gruesome version of the story I had grown up with). Others say Adita was killed in her home, rolled up in a carpet and dumped in the mountains. The theories surrounding  why  she was murdered are even more nuanced. I hadn’t been to  Bogota  — my birthplace — in over a decade but after ...
Post a Comment
Read more