if these had been fixed the public would have been saved from being overcharged chennai the madras high court monday issued notice to electronics corporation of tamil nadu limited on a pil seeking a direction to effectively implement the policy on fixing global position system integrated fare metres with printers in autorickshaws and contract carriages in the state the division bench comprising justices s manikumar and subramonium prasad also directed the registry to post the pil filed by raahat the safe community foundation ludhiana with the review and contempt petitions filed in the similar matter advt the bench then posted it for further hearing to june 6 the petitioner submitted that the government order issued in august 2013 required contract carriages and autorickshaws operating within the chennai metropolitan area limits to install gps enabled digital fare metres and furthermore to extend it to the entire state of tamil nadu if these had been fixed the public would have been saved from being overcharged and also have a facility of emergency alarm raising option in case of safety issues the petitioner submitted adding that the policy had not been executed this was in spite of the government issuing the august 25 2013 order and the advocate general assuring the court in the review application on june 18 2016 that the gps installation in chennai would be completed within three or four months and thereafter extended to other cities he said stating that the gps would help know the realtime location and the status of fare metres and the panic switch would enable passengers to be connected to the police control room the petitioner said elcot had not taken any steps to implement the scheme submitting that measures should be taken for its successful implementation for the welfare of the people of the state the petitioner pointed out that national capital territory delhi was successfully implementing it hence he sought a direction from the court to implement the policy in a timebound manner cor apr ck pti published on apr 30 2019 at 0959 am ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etauto app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app elcot pil autos gps auto technology homenewsindustryhc notice to elcot to implement gps tech in autos contract carriages