Shillong, Oct. 15 -- The newly amended Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2019, which has enforced on September 01, 2019 across the country, seems to have tightened the lease on drivers and motorists to ensure that they follow traffic rules and guidelines. Reports have come in from several cities collecting heavy fines for traffic violations. But has new MV Act helped in improving the traffic culture? The answer to this will take some time to come as the new Act has recently been implemented. Most of those compounded by traffic police either did not know of the new rules or were not ready with the required documents on time. Therefore, it is too early to draw conclusions on the effective results from the Act.

The new MV Act was brought to ...