The situation is still not clear as when the bus transport will start in the State. The bus owners are adamant on their demands of waiving the tax on buses that were parked during the lockdown.
At the same time, the State government is not able to take any decision regarding this. This is affecting the bus business as well as the common people.
Now, the bus owners are surrendering their buses to the transport department. President of Mandsaur Bus Owners Association, Shikhar Ratadia and guardian of Neemuch Bus Association, Mukesh Gupta said that more than 500 stranded buses run in Mandsaur and Neemuch district, while there are about 35 thousand buses in the entire state, involving 1.50 lakh bus owners and employees Has families, many of whom have had the idea of ??starving.
Meanwhile, on August 20, the government had given permission to operate the bus according to the capacity and has also given instructions to collect the outstanding tax by August 31, but the State Government has not yet prepared any draft regarding tax waiver, so all the associations The members have started the process of surrendering the buses by holding a meeting.
He told that the bus owners reached Bhopal on August 18 and also made their demands in front of the state transport minister Govid Singh Rajput, finance minister Jagdish Deora and small and micro industries minister Om Prakash Saklecha.
After almost 12 days, due to no redress, Neemuch and Mandsaur District Bus Operators Association members reached the district transport office and submitted the surrender of their buses to the officer in the transport department. Both officials said that
All the bus operators will decide the next strategy by meeting the Government's callousness.