The Division of Motor Site visitors (DMT) is now searching for the assist of members of the general public to crack down on automobiles that emit excessive volumes of smoke.
Accordingly, the next phone quantity has been launched for the general public to tell of such automobiles by way of WhatsApp: 070 350 0525
As per experiences, the DMT has acquired a mess of complaints concerning the privately-owned buses, SLTB buses and automobiles utilized by public sector establishments together with the police that emit extreme smoke from the exhaust.
Addressing a press convention, the DMT’s director-general revealed that greater than 40% of privately-owned buses have failed the automobile emission take a look at performed in February. Each month, all personal sector passenger buses bear the take a look at on the Car Emission Testing Heart on Bastian Street.
He warned that the income license of the automobiles that fail the take a look at could be blacklisted if the house owners fail to get the automobiles inspected on the DMT’s head workplace in Werahera inside 14 days.
In the meantime, venture director of DMT’s vehicular emission take a look at belief fund Dasun Janaka, becoming a member of the mentioned press convention, famous that the volumes of black smoke emitted from automobile exhausts have alarmingly gone up over the previous few years.
