Transport Minister Surendra Rakesh on Thursday said that strict action should be ensured against the officials on whose part dereliction in duty is reported. Chairing the review meet at his office in Vidhan Sabha, he said that concrete steps should be taken for increasing the income of the department.
The minister said that a decision to regularize the contract workers, who have completed 10 years in service, and providing job on compensatory ground, has already been taken. By taking speedy action into the matter, the vacant posts in the department should be filled. He asked the officials to send a proposal. The officials apprised the minister of filling the 159 posts of drivers out of vacant 300 posts. Proposal for filling the post of conductors is yet to be developed. He directed the managing director to monitor the project and ensure integration of all the unions of the transport corporation.
He said that regular efforts should be taken for improving the system and list of the employees should be thoroughly checked at the head office by getting from the offices of regional managers and assistant regional managers. He said that a proposal about loss incurred by the transport corporation due to damage of roads during the natural disaster should be send to the government.