Advantages and Disadvantages of scrapping RTOs

Advantages and Disadvantages of scrapping RTOs

Introduction

Modi’s Government is set to change the nation and give it a new outlook. They have started with the transport regulations as well. Nitin Gadkari, the Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways have announced the new transformations in the transport regulatory systems. Along with the transformations, he has informed about supposedly scrapping up of the RTOs, which he feels would not be required with the implementation of fresh laws. Let us check the advantages and disadvantages of scrapping RTOs.

Advantages

- The RTOs are often a big harassment to the common man who enters the office to seek help. The common man is made to run from pillar to post to get his job done. If the same work will be done efficiently without RTOs, then it would be time and energy saving for the public.

- The RTOs form a big part of corruption in our country. Scrapping the RTOs would be a move against corruption as well.

- The RTOs are the first place where the traffic rules are broken. The officers issuing the licenses without having a thorough check leads to lot many accidents across the city. This would be an initiative towards avoiding accidents if the driving licenses are issued in a proper way.

- The agents linked with the RTOs play a major role in the violation of the rules and regulations. This would be a check to such agents and clarity in the course of action by the transport regulatory authorities.

- The common man will not be unnecessarily harassed and fined to meet the collection targets laid for the Traffic Police.

Disadvantages

- In case the government is planning to substitute all the tasks of the RTO with the systems and machineries, then this would be big hit for the employment of so many employees. With every single technology replacing many men, we are wasting our richest resource of manpower.

- Technology needs to be ruled by humans. The technology should not rule the man. The systems cannot replace the human tasks and duties which definitely require the office structure.

- The regional transport offices have helped in segregating the masses into smaller groups to get their work completed. Summing up the whole society into a single unit may create more havoc.

- We cannot implement the foreign way of transportation in India. We have already visualised many accidents due to the BRT corridors in Delhi which were again an imitation of the foreign way of transport regulation.

Conclusion

To be precise, we can accept some changes in the transport regulatory system for good, but scrapping the RTOs altogether in a single go might not be all that easy for the commuters and the general public. If an efficient technology aided by the manpower could provide good corruption-free and time-saving service, there would be a single hand in opposition in scrapping the RTOs. Thus we need to be careful for accommodating all the employees of the transportation sector along with the welfare of the general public and daily commuters before going ahead with this big move scrapping the RTOs.