Summary:
This is the first time that the CTU has made it mandatory for the manufacturer to install the panic button in buses. The panic button has been introduced on the direction of the Ministry of Road Transport, which asked all states and UTs to install the panic button in buses following a Supreme Court order. All passenger vehicles, including taxis and buses, are to be mandatorily equipped with GPS devices and the panic button. Uma Shankar Gupta, Director, CTU, said they were working with the STA and the police to establish a common centre, which would be connected with the panic button system. Though the GPS had been installed in CTU buses, this is the first time that the panic button has been introduced in buses..