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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Kejriwal effect on red beacons -Abhinav Garg & Dipak Kumar Dash

Kejriwal effect on red beacons -Abhinav Garg & Dipak Kumar Dash

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published Published on Jan 8, 2014   modified Modified on Jan 8, 2014
-The Times of India


NEW DELHI: The Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Admi Party's rejection of the "VIP culture" and its trappings and the public sentiment it has drawn, seems to have forced a rethink on use of red beacon. The central government is considering pruning the list of those eligible to use red beacon on their official vehicles, source said.

However, there is also an opinion that the government shouldn't act in haste since the issue is sensitive, sources said.

It is learnt that the road transport ministry has submitted four options to the solicitor general Mohan Parasaran to give an opinion on who should be permitted to use a red beacon that has come to be seen as a status symbol. The options include maintaining the present list of dignitaries, reducing it to only to constitutional authorities as directed by the Supreme Court or complete abolition of the red beacon. These options were worked out in consultation with the ministries of home affairs and law.

In a follow-up meeting with the SG, sources said, the focus was on restricting the number of dignitaries who can sport a red beacon. Incidentally, even before the SC judgment on red beacons was delivered, Parasaran had got the beacon removed from his official vehicle.

While pushing the logic for severely restricting red beacon's use, a section of government has said those needing security on roads have already got the pilot vehicles. They have been maintaining that such a culture is not there in other vibrant democracies. Earlier, the road transport had even written to other departments and top government functionaries that there was "public angst" against the red beacon culture.

In its last order the SC had said, "The use of red lights on the vehicles carrying the holders of constitutional posts will in no manner compromise with the dignity of other citizens and individuals or embolden them to think that they are superior to other people, more so, because this distinction would be available to them only while on duty and would be co-terminus with their tenure."

Officials said the issue is far bigger in case of state governments who have their own list of persons and officials allowed to use red beacons and sirens. The SC has asked states to submit their plans and strategy to revise their list of dignitaries using red beacon.


The Times of India, 8 January, 2014, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Kejriwal-effect-on-red-beacons/articleshow/28531581.cms


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