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Smart City app for Guidelines for National permit vehicles
Lucknow he national permit 1989. Henceforth, National shall display the class label. It

ucknow Municipal vehicles can now ply Permit or N/P would be has to be fitted with FASTag.
Corporation is set to Twithout two drivers. inscribed in the front and Vehicle shall be affixed with
Llaunch the ‘Smart City Besides, there is also no rear of the vehicles in bold reflective tapes at front and
App’ for finding parking space requirement of having dark letters, and added that in rear.
in the market area in Lucknow. brown body colour for such case of trailers, the letters Vehicle will also be fitted
User of this app can find out vehicles, as was mandatory “N/P” will be inscribed on with a vehicle tracking system
the routes, time & real-time earlier with amendment in the rear and left side of
status of UPSRTC buses besides Central Motor Vehicles Rules. the vehicle. The body of a device. It will not pick up or
the facility to lodge complaints tanker carrying dangerous set down goods between
related to civic issues and traffic The Ministry of Road or hazardous goods shall be two points in the same state,
among other things through Transport and Highways if restricted by the particular
the app. Location of buses made amendments to CMVR painted in white colour and state. The government said
will be available through GPS the renewal of fitness in
installed in buses. Availability respect of transport vehicles
and booking of seats in a bus will now be every two years
can be made through UPSRTC for vehicles up to eight years
window which will be installed old, and one year for vehicles
in the app. Also, smart metro older than eight years.
cards can be recharged with
this app. Further, no fitness
certification shall be required
According to the civic body,
the app would be a one-stop at the time of registration for
centre for several services new transport vehicle sold as
being offered under Smart City ‘fully built vehicle’ and such
scheme. The app is likely to be vehicle shall be deemed to be
launched in April 2019, initially, having certificate of fitness
the app will be available in for a period of two years.
Google playstore.

Delhi-Varanasi High Speed Rail project

hile the has already started. The making very long corridors.
construction distance between Delhi and In the case of Varanasi, the
Wwork of Mumbai- Varanasi is approximately Railways feels that even if
Ahmedabad High-Speed 750km. Moreover, the Indian the High-Speed Rail corridor
Rail project is yet to gain Railways is already in process is built, a large part of Uttar
momentum, the planning to make small length i.e. Pradesh can be linked with
for a new Delhi-Varanasi 500-800 km of High-Speed this corridor and millions of
High Speed Rail project Rail corridors instead of people will get benefits.

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