Nearly a week after this newspaper exposed the murky business of ambulance operators charging exorbitantly to ferry Covid-19 patients or bodies of those felled by the Coronavirus, the transport department said on Tuesday that it would paste rate cards on ambulances and punish the violators.

The rate card has details of tariff per kilometre and as per the vehicle model. It also has the fine amount for violation on first and subsequent offences and details of the authorities who can be reached out to report overcharging.