City's autorickshaws may finally get fitted with GPS from March. DIMTS, the agency in-charge of the project, has been asked by the transport department to empanel vendors who will supply the GPS devices to three-wheeled scooter rickshaws (TSRs).
The process of empanelling is expected to take a month or so, after which, the government will bring out the notification for installing GPS in autorickshaws.
The Delhi government has asked DIMTS to work on GPS-enabled meters for the new three-wheeler scooter rickshaws. Meanwhile, the authorities are working on a comprehensive auto-rickshaw policy for the addition of 45,000 new autos as part of a court directive.
"The meters for the new autos will be enabled with GPS and a printer so that commuters can not only have an idea about the route taken but also receive a receipt for the fare."
"We will have to issue a notice giving details of the specifications vendors need to meet. Their applications would then be evaluated by us and the entire process is likely to take 40 days. Auto-rickshaw owners can then get the GPS fitted from these authorized vendors," said a DIMTS official.
Sources in the government said that TSR drivers and owners will be given time to install the device. "We will allow them some time, perhaps six months or so, to ensure that all TSRs have the GPS device," said the official. Both the existing 55,000 autorickshaws as well as the new 45,000 TSRs will have to have the GPs device.
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