WELCOMES YOU ALL

1. All India Motor Transport Congress WELCOMES YOU ALL

4. CURRENT SCENARIO • MOST NEGLECTED , HIGHLY EXPLOITED • GOVERNANCE MODEL - ARCHIAC, REGRESSIVE, SUBJUGATIVE AND COERCIVE POLICIES, RULES AND REGULATIONS – AIMS AT REVENUE GENERATION ONLY, GIVING IMPETUS TO CORRUPTION AND HARASSMENT IN THE ECOSYSTEM. • DETERIORATING HEALTH – DUE ON RAMPANT CORRUPTION AND HARASSMENT. • CORRUPTION & HARASSMENT BY MULTIPLE AUTHORITIES - 18 AUTHORITIES CAN STOP A TRUCK AND EXTORT MONEY THROUGH LEGAL & ILLEGAL MEANS, POLICE, RTOs, DTOs & CTOs in particular. • TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL REPORT OF 2006 - RS. 22000 CRORE IS FLEECED ON INDIAN ROADS FROM COMMERCIAL VEHICLE OPERATORS.

5. REPLETE WITH HINDRANCES, ROAD BLOCKS AND BUREAUCRATIC HURDLES. • MULTIPLE& EXCESSIVE TAXATION AND LEVIES MAKING OPERATIONS ECONOMICALLY UNVIABLE • VARIED NORMS ACROSS THE STATES / UTS MAKING OPERATIONS CUMBERSOME • Additional Financial Burden – Through mandatory imposition of SLDs, ABS, GPS System, Pollution Tax etc to favour a few under the garb of Road Safety & Pollution though PRUDENT & LOGICAL STEPS IGNORED. • EVER RISING OPERATING COST - DIESEL, SPARES, INSURANCE, TYRE, TOLL, ESTABLISHMENT COSTS, TAXES, LEGAL AND ILLEGAL EN ROUTE EXPENSES, SALARIES ETC. • YET FREIGHT, WHICH DEPEND UPON MARKET FORCES, IS DWINDLING

6. 18 Authorities that prey on vulnerable trucker

7. BARRIER FREE SEAMLESS MOVEMENT ACROSS THE COUNTRY • Ease of Doing Business • Engender Efficiencies in Operations • Boost India Inc. ccompetitiveness' of key manufacturing • sectors by 3-4% OF NET SALES • Indian truckProductivity would improve by 12 percent, If the • distance covered goes up by 20 per cent per day • ALL CHECKPOSTS & TOLL PLAZAS MUST BE REMOVED • MAKE BARRIER FREE INDIA

8. LACK OF EFFICIENCY & PRODUCTIVITY VIS-À-VIS GLOBAL BENCHMARKS IIM(C ) 2008 STUDY REVELATIONS • COLOSSAL NATIONAL LOSS - Rs 87000 cr(FUEL WASTAGE & INVENTORY DELAYS) WORLD BANK STUDY ON PRODUCTIVITY ESTIMATES • HALVING DELAYS DUE TO ROADBLOCKS, TOLLS & OTHER STOPPAGES COULD CUT • FREIGHT TIMES BY SOME 20-30% AND • LOGISTICS COSTS BY 30-40%

9. Indian Constitution provides that trade and commerce should be free, the Centre and the States (especially the former) have the power to regulate. • -- To ensure harmonization and facilitate inter-State trade and commerce without hindrances,  Inter-State trade and commerce and some elements of intra-State trade and commerce are a Central responsibility. • - Part XIII (Articles 301 through 307) &  Articles 14 through 19 • - Several other matters, incidental or necessary to trade and commerce, are also a Central responsibility, through exclusive or concurrent jurisdiction. • - The regulation of inter-State trade and commerce is assigned to the Centre primarily to ensure that inter-State rivalries and competition do not lead to tensions and constraints.  

10. The free flow of trade, without geographical barriers, is a sine qua non for Economic Prosperity, nationally as well as internationally. THE EUROPEAN UNION HAS ACCORDINGLY REMOVED BARRIERS AMONG COUNTRIES. IT IS TIME THAT INDIA REMOVES BARRIERS WITHIN THE COUNTRY. ASystem Similar to the TIR CARNET SYSTEM prevailing in the European Union (EU) that requires no checking of consignments, sealed at the origin, at interstate check-posts may be adopted to facilitate smooth flow of high-value, perishable and time-sensitive items.

11. AIMTC SUGGESTION FOR • FREE FLOW INCENTIVIZED e -TOLLING • COMPULSORY E-TAGGING • NO MANUAL INTERVENTION AT ALL TOLL PLAZAS ELECTRONIC TOLLING SYSTEM IN BELARUS & ZAMBIA

12. ADVANTAGES OF BARRIER FREE INDIA

13. TRANSIT PASS SYSTEM IN THE COUNTRY • VARIED ACROSS STATES/UTS. CUMBERSOME PROCESS. • SERVES NO USEFUL PURPOSE ONLY RESULT IN HARASSMENT, DELAYS AND CORRUPTION. • ONE OF THE KEY REFORMS DESIRED BY THE TRANSPORT SECTOR. A UNIFORM PROCEDURE AND FORMAT FOR TRANSIT PASS SHOULD BE FOLLOWED BY ALL STATES, AS INPUTS ARE THE SAME. • The details of the updated document of a particular vehicle, AS PER STANDARDIZED FORMAT, could be uploaded from the origin station and may be checked by any authority online through tab / i pad or sms without stopping the vehicles. • NO PHYSICAL CHECK BY ANY AUTHORITY SHOULD BE ALLOWED WITHOUT A “REASON TO BELIEVE” OR ON “SPECIFIC INTELLIGENCE INPUT”. • UNIFIED, TRANSPARENT & SIMPLIFIED TAXATION SYSTEM IS PROPOSED BY AIMTC THROUGH USE OF TECHNOLOGY AND INFRA – RED SCANNERS , WHICH WILL FACILITATE SEAMLESS TRANSPORTATION

14. INSECURE HIGHWAYS - PROTECTION AND SAFETY ISSUES • ROBBERIES, THEFTS OF GOODS AND HIJACKING OF VEHICLES INCREASING UNABTED IN NHS & SHS. • MILLIONS OF RUPEES WORTH HIGH VALUE ITEMS VANISH ALMOST DAILY.  • GANGS OPERATING IN A VERY ORGANIZED WAY WITHOUT THE FEAR OF POLICE, • THE POLICE IS HARASSING  AND MAKING OUT A CASE AGAINST THE OPERATOR AND EVEN DO NOT FILE AN FIR IN MOST OF THE CASES. • SUGGEST NATIONAL HIGHWAY POLICE FORCE SIMILAR TO RPF, CRPF Etc for help at GROUND ZERO • CREATE COMMON ONLINE THEFT CASE REGISTRY FROM ALL STATES FOR VIGILANCE • WE WANT SECURE HIGHWAYS.

15. NON- PAYMENT OF DUES BY THE CLIENTS TO THE TRANSPORTERS CAUSING INEFFICIENCY AND FINANCIAL INSTABILITY DUE TO DELAYED OR NON PAYMENT OF THE DUES BY THE CONSIGNOR / CONSIGNEES. The Government is always hyper active to secure the interest of the customers who take transportation services from this sector, while specifying draconian provisions and penalties on the service providers, as in Carriage by Road Act, but fail to protect their interests in return. • Though it is a Civil Matter but this aspect must be addressed through some • STRINGENT LEGAL FRAMEWORK, MAKING IT A COGNIZIBLE OFFENCE • SUPPORT RECOVERY BY CAPPING MAXIMUM TIME LIMITS AS FOR MSMES • LEGAL FRAMEWORK TO DECLARE OUTSTANDING DUES IN BALANCE SHEETS

16. ERADICATE MALADY OF OVERLOADING FROM THE SYSTEM SUGGESTIONS • OFF LOADING OF THE EXCESS LOAD as per law and Hon’ble SC Judgment • PENALIZING ALL IN THE CHAIN, viz. consignor/consignee, Law enforcers en route, truckers / transporters. THE ACCOUNTABILITY OF FIELD OFFICERS RTO’s, check post officials and others government officials at the intervening Check Posts, Toll Plazas, Interstate barriers through which the overloaded vehicle is allowed to pass through SHOULD BE FIXED. • ELECTRONIC WEIGH-IN-MOTION WEIGHBRIDGES BE INSTALLED at various check-points with  Total Transparency in the System and Third Party Audit every three months to check the calibration of the weighbridges The perpetrators of overloading are allowed to move on the National & State Highways freely while the fact is that genuine and law abiding transporters are being harassed by the field officers in most of the cases it is the CONSIGNOR / CONSIGNEE AND THE LAW ENFORCERS who coercively force the vulnerable transporter/trucker to overload.

17. LEVY OF TDS ON TRANSPORT SECTOR

18. NEGLIGIBLE PARKING INFRASTRUCTURE & BASIC AMENITIES FOR COMMERCIAL VEHICLES ON NHs & SHs • UTTER LACK OF BASIC WAYSIDE AMENITIES LIKE • SECURED PARKING LOTS, LAY-BYES, DRINKING WATER, TOILET BLOCKS, HYGIENIC FOOD JOINTS, REST ROOMS, ETC • IT IS ONE OF THE OBLIGATION IN THE MODEL CONCESSIONAIRE AGREEMENT. HOW COD IS GIVEN WITHOUT THESE FACILITIES IS A ? • HARDLY ANY SECURED PARKING SPACE FOR COMMERCIAL VEHICLES AND BUSES ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY.  • THE SECURED PARKING TERMINALS FOR TRUCK /BUS OPERATORS AT THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE CITIES AND ESPECIALLY EVERY 50 KMS ON THE NATIONAL AND STATE HIGHWAYS • REQUIRED ONPRIORITY.

20. NATIONAL PERMIT FOR TOURIST VEHICLES • The National Permit for Buses, TAXICABS cabs and Tourist Taxis will prove a BOON TO BOTH DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL TOURISTS who currently face perils of wide variation if rules and regulations in different States. • It will also GIVE IMPETUS TO INDIAN TOURISM SPACE and will plays a pivotal role in EXPANDING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES, GENERATING EMPLOYMENT, NATIONAL INTEGRATION by bringing people closer and ENGENDERINGCULTURAL COHESIVENESS and BRINGING ECONOMIC PROSPERITY TO ERSTWHILE REMOTE AND NON-DESCRIPT AREAS. • NATIONAL PERMIT FOR TOURIST VEHICLES BE TAKEN UP SERIOUSLY AND NOTIFIED AT THE EARLIEST.

21. AGGREGATORS TAMING AGGREGATORS • WITHOUT REGULATIONS • EXPLOIT GULLIBLE PASSENGERS BY UNETHICAL SURGE PRICING • BY INTRUDING THEIR EXISTING NETWORK AND EAT INTO LIVELIHOOD OF SELF EMPLOYED AND SMALL TAXICABS OPERATORS. • CHECKS SHOULD BE MADE ON MONOPOLISTIC & PREDATORY MARKETING TACTICS OF THESE MULTINATIONAL AGGREGATORS BOTH IN PASSENGER AS WELL AS CARGO MOVEMENT SECTOR • MUST BE BROUGHT UNDER REGULATARY REGIME AS DONE BY KARNATAKA STATE GOVERNMENT

23. ABOVE ALL WHAT IS NEEDED? A STRONG POLITICAL & BUREAUCRATIC WILL, AN EMPATHETIC and CONSIDERATE APPROACH & SENSITIVITY OF POLICY MAKERS FOR GOOD HEALTH OF THIS SECTOR

24. Thank you for your kind attention! Bhim Wadhwa President Naveen Gupta Secretary General