PIONEER EDGE NEWS SERVICE/ Dehradun
The Dehradun Mahanagar City Bus Service Society will start an agitation in support of its demand to suspend the operation of all such stage carriage operators which do not have a conductor. The association is demanding that the Transport department should follow the order of Uttarakhand High Court in this regard. The president of the society Vijay Vardhan Dandariyal said that the Tata Magic and Omni buses don’t have conductors and in light of the HC order their operation should be banned. He said that in the first phase, the city buses union will hold a protest at Lansdowne Chowk and submit a memorandum to the chief minister. In the second phase the effigies of the officers of Transport department will be burnt and in the third phase of agitation a one day symbolic strike will be observed. Dandariyal said that if demands are not accepted, the union will hold a demonstration at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi.
Dandariyal said that he met the Transport secretary in which he informed him that the officers of the Transport department are not following the HC order. In its order the HC has directed that conductors should regulate the passengers from and entry and exit gates in the stage carriage vehicles. Dandariyal said that the regulations clearly mention that buses operating in cities must have two gates while those operating on long distances should have one gate.
