33 percent vehicles without fitness certificate!

The statistics are horrifying. How can anyone even think of reducing the number of road accidents when one third of the vehicles that are plying on the roads are without the necessary fitness papers? And this is according to statistics of the BRTA covering the period up to 25 October. And when one takes into account the number of drivers without legal driving license the mix assumes a most dangerous prospect, and one that is reflected in the road mishaps. Surely those with the responsibility to ensure that unfit vehicles are kept off the streets are not doing their job with honesty.
While it is the responsibility of the BRTA to issue driving licenses and fitness certificates, it is for the police on the city streets and on the highways to check vehicles for legal and up to date documents. And on both counts there is not only lax oversight, the deep rooted corruption pervading both these agencies is also responsible for the horrid state of affairs in the road transport sector. One has to spend only a few minutes on the streets to see the roads saturated with dilapidated, rickety jalopies passing off as vehicles right under the nose of the traffic sergeant without a bother.
Merely coming out with statistics is not enough. We would like to know what the BRTA has done or is planning to do to correct the gross aberration. It is serious matter since unfit vehicles take lives. And those entrusted to prevent that do not do their job properly are committing a criminal offence.