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Transparency International India, in a report on corruption in trucking operations, has estimated the speed money floating around at more than Rs 22,000 crore, and said that "the practice of bribe payment in this sector is highly institutionalised". The report, as quoted in SAARC Journal of Transport, suggests that nearly 90 per cent of the bribe money is shared among government agencies, particularly the law-enforcing and Transport Departments of States.

The officials, it said, use the provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 and the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989 to devise innovative ways to extract money. Overloading has been banned by the Supreme Court but is observed more in the breach. The Centre too, it appears, is helpless. Quoting a communication to the Rajya Sabha, the journal says, the Union Government has admitted its limitation in the implementation of the two Acts and pushes the ball into the courts of the State governments.

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