RED BEACONS WITH FLASHER, OR NO FLASHERS
We have 3 categories of Red beacons in India, but there are certain dignitaries who are still found violating the SC rules. Our Goa State Home Department should have guided those who do not obey these SC guidelines, unfortunately no one bothered to follow it up. This is a great mistake again committed by our CM as he has already done recently a mistake approving a study tour for his Ministers and MLA’s for a junket tour to Brazil to watch the World Cup on the pretext that they will be needed to learn organization technique and other management skills etc and still justifying their trip. Also he said and it is true, that Goa is a well known state in football activities from the beginning and that Goans are football lovers including him and that their acquired knowledge would have been useful but why needed to spend such a huge amount? Anyway now the matter is shelved by the Prime Minister. Thank GOD. Now, coming back to the Red Beacons issue, the SC did a wonderful job making all these people for accountability and also not loitering with their Beacons for their personal use etc. There are few dignitaries who are still not following these orders from SC. In fact the AAP leader Mr Arvind Kejriwal wanted to introduce these rules. Now is that the Navhind Times dt 13th June 2014 came with the listing of all types of users of Beacons who are in the approved list. We expect that the RTO under the orders from CM should start inspecting all the vehicles in Goa and other states for violation. The list needs to be made public. There are 3 categories for entitlement like; i) RED BEACON WITH FLASHER ii) RED BEACONS WITHOUT FLASHERS iii) NON FLASHERS RED BEACONS and also other kind of Beacons such Blue- -Yellow meant for fire services, ambulances and Police etc. All these categories are supposed to make it clear by Goa State RTO so that public and especially the intelligence personnel ( CID), could watch these vehicles movement in the state and accordingly the offenders could be taken to task. We have in Goa tourists coming from different states and rooming freely around this state with all kind of beacons and nobody knows whether these are genuine cases as they could be gangsters, bandits, or even terrorists. The Home Department of Goa should be able to gear up for any violations of SC rules and instruct the traffic police to firmly exercise these illegalities whether they are VIP’s or other officials etc. who may be using Government vehicles for the personal use for their families. I was told that the Union Government has issued a new approved list which is yet to be made public by RTO. In this new list which is been revised says that there are majority of officials been excluded from the earlier approved list. It seems that the Goa Government has powers and can give their ascent for introduction of any VIP or individual in the listing even if they are not in the list. Stephen Dias D.Paula
