‘No garage, No car’ rule will soon be implemented in Aizawl district from November

Aizawl, October 24: ‘No garage, No car’ rule will be implemented soon in Assam’s Aizwal from November. The Mizoram Government is gearing up to impose a rule that makes garage mandatory for Aizawl residents to own any type of vehicles. The move is aimed at easing the ever-increasing traffic congestion on the narrow and winding roads. 

“We have instructed local councils in all localities within Aizawl Municipal Corporation (AMC) to start inspecting if all vehicle owners in their jurisdictions have garages,” an official from AMC said.

It was in 2010 that the State Assembly passed the Mizoram Motor Vehicle (Amendment) Rules, 2010 that makes garage mandatory for vehicle owners in Aizawl. It has taken seven years for the government to finally enforce the Rules.

A meeting of Traffic Management Committee on July 27, 2016, gave vehicle owners in Aizawl one year to make garage, setting a deadline of October 31, 2017.

“Those failing to have a garage during the last one year will no longer be able to own a car,” an official of Traffic Management Committee said. “As more and more people are buying vehicles, it is getting extremely difficult to find space for traffic, especially in the State capital. With houses located on the slopes of the ridges, citizens have developed the habit of parking their vehicles at night on the roads. This has to stop, and thus the amendment in the motor vehicle rules,” said a State Transport department official.