Curbing mishaps: State to set up automated testing stations for vehicles

Fitness certificates will be issued only after clearing tests at these stations

- SOUMITRA NANDI

KOLKATA: The Transport department has decided to set up a dozen modernised automated testing stations (ATS) across the state equipped for conducting all sorts of mechanical and pollution tests of vehicles.

Fitness certificates will be issued to a particular vehicle only after clearing the tests at these stations.

"The administrative approval for soil testing at the proposed sites of the automated testing centres has been received and the preparation of DPR is afoot," said a Transport department official.