1) SC has last year held that every kind of "Jugad Vehicles" are also motor vehicles and insurance companies are liable (Justice Dr.B.S. Chauhan Judgement)
2) Insurance companies have not yet started taking third party insurances for accidents of E-Rickshaw, because no documents, bills, no specifications of E-rixa etc are available with owners or drivers.
3) E-Rickshaw are plying as Public Vehicles.
This is a great risk to public. Criminals can start driving E-Rickshaw and public can walk into hands of criminals as if walking into a mouse trap waiting for them as an E-Rickshaw.
4) Measures announced by Government to register E-Rickshaw are meaningless.
5) An ordinance required to prescribe specifications of E-Rickshaw, provision for treating it as motor vehicle for insurance purposes, obligation of Insurance company to obtain 3rd Party insurance for E-Rickshaw, and rules for minimum educational qualification of driver, their registration etc is must. Nothing less can help.
6) No political gimmicks can help E-Rickhaw.
Haresh Raichura
31/07/2014
