When the Transport Department is trying to make a fool-proof system to avoid manipulation in vehicle Pollution Under Control (PUC) certificates, the dealers are demanding revising of the testing cost.
Officials admit that several dealers are fudging the numbers in the pollution emission of the tested vehicles, and a majority of the certificates issued by the RTA approved mobile PUC testing centres are bogus.
Readings of the pollution emission generated by most of the testing centres in Hyderabad and across the State are unreliable, the officials maintain, adding that in some cases, the persons manning the PUC testing vehicles manipulate the numbers as per the requirement of the vehicle owner.
