State to get 400 new buses

Tribune News Service

Dehradun, February 6

The Uttarakhand Transport Corporation will get 400 new buses by May this year. This was revealed at a meeting of the State Transport Corporation presided over by Chief Minister Harish Rawat here today.

The Chief Minister was informed that 500 new buses would be equipped with GPS system and CCTVs.

He said all transparency must be maintained in purchase of new buses. He stressed on providing incentives to bus drivers and conductors, who performed excellently under extreme circumstances. He said efforts should be made to increase the revenue of the State Transport Corporation.

He said the Uttarakhand Transport Corporation needed to act more professionally. He held that scrap of old buses must be auctioned as per the norms. He said fitness test on buses should be done on a regular basis.

It was also informed in the meeting that an agreement linked to plying of buses had been done with Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Punjab and similar agreement were in the pipeline for Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi.

Uttarakhand Chief Secretary Shatrughan Singh, Uttarakhand State Transport Corporation Advisory Board vice-chairman Anil Gupta and Uttarakhand State Transport Corporation’s managing director Brijesh Sant were present at the meeting.