Watch your helmet for BIS certification or else get ready to face challans
If you are wearing non ISI helmet and you think like no one is watching you then it is an alert for you to recheck the Helmet you are using as w.e.f 1st June 2021 there is a blanket ban on non ISI helmets. The notification “Helmet for riders of Two Wheeler Motor Vehicles (Quality Control) Order, 2020” issued by Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) dated 26th November, 2020 has stated that all two-wheeler helmets must be Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) certified and should bear the Indian standard (ISI) mark from June 1.
Non obeyance will call for strict measures and penalising the violators. Any person who manufacture, stores, sells or import a non ISI helmet will be punished with imprisonment of term that can extend to 1 years or a minimum fine of Rs. 1 lakh which can also extent to Rs. 5 lakhs.
Additionally, only the two-wheelers helmets bearing the BIS/ISI certification will be allowed to be sold in the country that means manufacturing or selling non ISI helmet is an offence and the violation can land behind the bars. The reason for this much awaited step is to eliminate the sale of spurious and fake two-wheeler helmets and minimise the fatal road injuries caused due to low quality helmets.
As per WHO report 300 thousand people are dying in road accidents in India but this number only includes what is reported and recorded by the Indian Government. On the contrary as per general view more than one million people are dying in India in road accidents because many of the accidents never get reported and recorded. Such corrective measures are need of the hour to save human lives. As per the rule now there will be strict enforcement for adherence of this order.
So next time going to buy a new helmet make sure it should be BSI certified only.
New Delhi, 2021
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