NEW DELHI: To check entry of overloaded heavy vehicles into the Capital, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi has approved a proposal of the Delhi Government's Transport Department to install "weigh-in motion bridges" at almost all the toll plazas on inter-State borders across the city. The new fool-proof technology, used worldwide, will allow vehicles entering the city to be weighed automatically on the electronic weigh bridge at the toll plaza, details of which will be displayed in computer-generated toll tax receipts. This will help the Transport Department and the Delhi Police personnel deployed at the borders to turn away overloaded commercial vehicles.

Though the civic body has computerised eight of the 10 toll plazas on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh and Delhi-Haryana borders, no facility to weigh commercial vehicles is available, resulting in overloaded trucks and other heavy vehicles entering the Capital despite the Supreme Court ban.

With the civic body giving the go-ahead to the project, the MCD, the Transport Department and the contractors managing the toll plazas will soon sign a tripartite agreement after finalising all the technical details. All investment on the project is likely to be borne by the Transport Department.

Informing that a pilot project is already on at the Singhu border and has produced excellent results, a senior Transport Department official said Delhi Transport Minister Haroon Yusuf has called a meeting of the Transport Department and MCD officials to finalise the project.

Stating that it would not only check cases of breakdown of heavy vehicles on roads and prevent accidents but also avert massive damage caused to roads due to overloading, a senior MCD official said they were happy to cooperate with the Transport Department, but their only concern was that it should not put any financial burden on the contractors manning the toll plazas.

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