On the instructions of the state government, Uttarakhand Transport Corporation has issued orders for free travel for the state agitators in all its categories of buses. Till now the operators considered travel only in ordinary buses as permissible, but now the Transport Corporation management has ordered that the state agitators should be given free travel in Volvo and air-conditioned buses also. The condition is that the journey will be valid within the state only. Even if the territory of Uttar Pradesh falls between the departure point and the destination point, the journey will be considered free.
Under the public welfare schemes run by the state government, free travel is provided in various specific categories of transport corporation buses. The government itself bears its burden. Their complete details are available in the e-ticket machines of the Transport Corporation, but the operators remain confused every time as to which category of passenger is to be given free travel and which is not. Often there are disputes between operators and passengers regarding this. Recently, the corporation management had received a complaint that state agitators were not being given free travel in rural depot buses. Some conductors were getting it done, but that too in ordinary buses. When the government received the complaint, the government instructed the corporation management to provide free travel to the state agitators in all categories of buses.
Assistant General Manager of Rural Depot KP Singh on Wednesday ordered that the state agitators should be given the facility of free travel within the state not only in ordinary buses but also in Volvo and air-conditioned buses. Action will be taken against the operator who violates the order.
Deceased dependent conductors should be sent on CNG buses.
The Transport Corporation management has ordered the recently appointed deceased dependent conductors to be deployed on long distance CNG buses. Divisional Manager Sanjay Gupta said that orders were given in this regard in February also, but some depot in-charges are making these operators do clerical work in the office. A warning was given by the management that if any depot in-charge takes any work from these operators in the office or any other work, then departmental action will be taken against him. Like regular operators, it has been made mandatory for these operators to perform 250 km duty per day.
