NEW DELHI: The shipping department is carrying out a big crackdown on unauthorised buses plying in the city. As a part of a distinct enforcement power in the closing fortnight, it has penalised and impounded more than 1,000 buses working on interstate routes.
The buses have been penalised for violating allow norms. Although ferrying passengers between Delhi and towns and cities comparable to Agra, Jaipur, Ajmer, Kullu- Manali, Jammu and Moradabad, these buses did not have legitimate allows to take individual passengers on these routes. While 60 groups of the enforcement wing have penalised 212 unauthorised buses in May, it has fined and impounded 1,048 buses, most of them previously 15 days.
"All these buses were operating on contract carriage permits, which allow these vehicles to be hired as chartered buses for a group but they can't take individual passengers. Only buses with stage carriage permits can ferry individual passengers and issue tickets," said an reliable. This allow is given to a bus operator to ply the car on a selected direction that consists of phases where passengers may also be picked up and dropped.
Chartered buses can ferry a group of passengers most effective from one point to any other and can't prevent on the method and pick up individual passengers, the reliable said. "We received complaints that contract carriage buses were running illegally on these routes and stopping at different points to pick up passengers," he added.
These buses have been plying illegally, which was once now not most effective resulting in lack of earnings for the government but have been additionally a big protection fear, he said. "Passengers would board these buses without knowing that these don't have permits to pick up individual passengers."
The department thinking about areas from where these buses typically pick up passengers, specifically close to the Sarai Kale Khan, Anand Vihar and Kashmere Gate inter-state bus terminuses. Two different areas have been Majnu Ka Tila and Red Fort. The impounded buses have been saved at Sarai Kale Khan and Burari.
The buses have been penalised for violating allow norms. Although ferrying passengers between Delhi and towns and cities comparable to Agra, Jaipur, Ajmer, Kullu- Manali, Jammu and Moradabad, these buses did not have legitimate allows to take individual passengers on these routes. While 60 groups of the enforcement wing have penalised 212 unauthorised buses in May, it has fined and impounded 1,048 buses, most of them previously 15 days.
"All these buses were operating on contract carriage permits, which allow these vehicles to be hired as chartered buses for a group but they can't take individual passengers. Only buses with stage carriage permits can ferry individual passengers and issue tickets," said an reliable. This allow is given to a bus operator to ply the car on a selected direction that consists of phases where passengers may also be picked up and dropped.
Chartered buses can ferry a group of passengers most effective from one point to any other and can't prevent on the method and pick up individual passengers, the reliable said. "We received complaints that contract carriage buses were running illegally on these routes and stopping at different points to pick up passengers," he added.
These buses have been plying illegally, which was once now not most effective resulting in lack of earnings for the government but have been additionally a big protection fear, he said. "Passengers would board these buses without knowing that these don't have permits to pick up individual passengers."
The department thinking about areas from where these buses typically pick up passengers, specifically close to the Sarai Kale Khan, Anand Vihar and Kashmere Gate inter-state bus terminuses. Two different areas have been Majnu Ka Tila and Red Fort. The impounded buses have been saved at Sarai Kale Khan and Burari.
1,000 interstate buses plying illegally fined, impounded
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