PESHAWAR: On the instructions of Commissioner Peshawar Division Riaz Khan Mehsud, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Transport Department has notified ban on rickshaws manufacturing units in Peshawar.
The transport department said that licenses of All manufacturing factories have been revoke immediately with the aim to reduce the traffic mess in the city and contain the environmental pollution. The notification said that there will be complete ban on Two stroke and four stroke rickshaws, qingqi and loaders rickshaws in the capital city.
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Similarly, the department has also revoked the rout permits of exiting two and 4-stroke rickshaws and announced that no such permits will be issued in the future.
Last week Commissioner Peshawar in a meeting took this decision to control the chaotic traffic in the city. Decision also made to confiscate unregistered vehicles. The government also imposed complete ban on underage rickshaw drivers. It has also been decided to register a case under sections-420 and 419 (Fraud and forgery) against rickshaw owners who operates more than one rickshaw on a single registration number.
The Rickshaw Union President Baaz Muhammad told Mashriq TV that they have raised the issue of thousands of illegal three-wheeler with authorities but the government was not serious in taking an effective action. Baaz said that the vehicles with valid NOCs are in trouble due to the routine police actions and traffice disruption created by illegal vehicles. He said that besides the rickshaws manufacturing units in Peshawar, new rickshaws are making entry into the city despite the ban on permits and registration.
The General Secretary of Rickshaw union Izat Khan said that although the excise department has stopped registration of new rickshaws in the city, but still they are entering in the city and are in operation on old registration numbers. Izat Khan said that now the government has decided to scrap 8200 registered two-stroke rickshaws but it will render the driver jobless. Therefore, the government should only go after illegal and unregistered vehicles to resolve the traffic issues.