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(v) identify strategic policies and specify priorities for the transport system
that address current and future challenges;
(vi) provide medium to long-term strategic directions, priorities and actions;
(vii) promote competition, innovation, increase in capacity, seamless mobility
and greater efficiency in transport of goods or livestock or passengers,
and economical use of resources;
(viii) safeguard the interest of the public and promote equity, while seeking to
enhance private participation and public-private partnership in the
transport sector;
(ix) demonstrate an integrated approach to transport and land use planning;
(x) identify the challenges that the National Transportation Policy seeks to
address; and
(xi) address any other matter deemed relevant by the Central Government.
66B. No bar against permit holders to apply and hold licences under schemes
No person who holds the permit issued under this Act shall—
(a) be disqualified from applying for a licence under the scheme made under
sub-section (3) of section 67 or sub-section (1) of section 88A by reason of
holding such permit; and
(b) be required to get such permit cancelled on being issued a licence under
any scheme made under this Act.]
67. Power of State Government to control road transport
1 [(1) A State Government, having regard to —
(a) the advantages offered to the public, trade and industry by the development
of motor transport;
1 Substituted by the Motor Vehicles (Amdt.) Act, 2019 (32 of 2019), dt. 9-8-2019, w.e.f. 1-9-2019 vide
SO 3110(E), dt. 28-8-2019. Prior to substitution, sub-section (1) read as under:
“(1) A State Government, having regard to—
(a) the advantages offered to the public, trade and industry by the development of motor transport,
(b) the desirability of co-ordinating road and rail transport,
(c) the desirability of preventing the deterioration of the road system; and
(d) the desirability of preventing uneconomic competition among holders of permits, may, from
time to time, by notification in the Official Gazette, issue directions both to the State Transport
Authority and Regional Transport Authority—
(i) regarding the fixing of fares and freights (including the maximum and minimum in respect
thereof) for stage carriages, contract carriages and goods carriages:
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(ii) regarding the prohibition or restriction, subject to such conditions as may be specified in the
directions, of the conveying of long distance goods traffic generally, or of specified classes of
goods by goods carriages;
(iii) regarding any other matter which may appear to the State Government necessary or expedient
for giving effect to any agreement entered into with the Central Government or any other State
Government or the government of any other country relating to the regulation of motor transport
generally, and in particular to its co-ordination with other means of transport and the conveying
of long distance goods traffic :
PROVIDED that no such notification in respect of the matters referred to in clause (ii) or clause
(iii) shall be issued unless a draft of the proposed directions is published in the Official Gazette
specifying therein a date being not less than one month after such publication, on or after which
the draft will be taken into consideration and any objection or suggestion which may be received
has, in consultation with the State Transport Authority, been considered after giving the
representatives of the interests effected an opportunity of being heard.”