LUDHIANA: Acting on the
financial irregularities
highlighted in the
audit report
, the office of Regional Transport Authority Ludhiana has
recovered
pending dues amounting to Rs 90 from the owners of defaulter commercial vehicles.
Officials said that with the connivance of insiders, owners of various commercial vehicles had managed to dodge the department to get fitness certificates of vehicles without clearing pending taxes, penalties and interest on them. Besides, there were other violations too which caused loss to the state exchequer.
An official, pleading anonymity said all these irregularities were reported before implementation of e-governance in the Punjab transport. The department has been offering online services since 2018.
RTA Ludhiana Randeep Singh said, “An audit in the past highlighted the financial irregularities reported between 2015 to 2018. Acting on these findings, we have recovered Rs 90 lakh in the past three months and will intensify the drive to recover more pending dues.”
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