A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court has directed the Transport Commissioner to ensure that enforcement officers such as motor vehicle inspectors (MVIs) who are assigned the duties of scrutinising and processing various applications submitted by the public are put back to their enforcement duties at the earliest.
The Bench passed the directive while disposing of public interest litigation (PIL) by Jyothi Chandran P.N, a former Joint RTO, recently. The petitioner pointed out that road accidents were mounting in the State. Despite the road safety conditions moving from bad to worse, the State government had deployed the enforcement officers for administrative jobs, diluting the provisions of the Kerala Road Safety Authority Act, 2007 and crippling the functioning of the Enforcement Wing.
According to the provisions of the Act, the enforcement officers should not be deployed for other services of the Motor Vehicles department (MVD), he said.
