Bus owners decide to surrender buses and permits
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, October 23 2009:
All Manipur Bus Owners' Association has decided to suspend bus services in the state indefinitely and surrender buses and route permits tomorrow to the state Director of Transport Department following the failure on the part of the government to fulfill the demands of the Association including formulating a long-term transport policy.
Speaking to reporters at the Manipur Press Club here today, A Priyokumar, secretary of All Manipur Bus Owners' Association said that the buses and their route permits will be surrendered to the government authority tomorrow as the government has failed to redress the grievances of the Association.
Bus services in the state will therefore remain suspended indefinitely.
He said, the Association has been urging the state government to fulfill several demands including the framing of long-term transport policy in view of the ever increasing transport services in the state by fixing limit of distances to various kinds of transport vehicles.
He said that the stage carrier permit holders including heavy and medium vehicles will join the indefinite stir of the Association.
He added that the state government will solely be held responsible for any outcome of the stir.
Among others, the association has been opposing the contract carrier permits to passenger ferrying vehicles like DI Tata, Tata Magic, Tata Sumo, and diesel Auto-rickshaw on the same routes the buses were given stage carrier permit.
It has also demanded the implementation of Section 74 of MV Act, 1988 in order to streamline the condition of vehicles' permit, according to Priyokumar.
Meanwhile, All Manipur Light and Medium Vehicle Transporters' Union, Manipur, has decided to suspend its proposed surrendering of vehicles with road permits on October 24, according to a statement issued by the general secretary, M Brojendro Luwang.