The district administration has decided to restart prepaid booths at prominent public places in the city. Among the prominent public places where prepaid booths would be activated include railway station, Gangbal bus stand and Sarwate bus stands respectively.
In a meeting held under the chairmanship of district Collector Aakash Tripathi it was also decided that pre-paid booths would be set up at other places in the city and the booths would be run through outsourcing.
The meeting also decided to close all the auto-rickshaws plying in the city roads for more than 10 years. The auto-rickshaw permit holders will have to take new auto-rickshaws in place of old auto-rickshaws which are 10 years old. Auto-rickshaw drivers found in charging more fares and plying without meters will be penalised. The meeting among others was attended by the DIG Rakesh Gupta, additional Collector Ravindra Singh, IDA CEO Deepak Singh, RTO Sanjay Soni, Addl SP Traffic Anjana Tiwari among others. Chairing the meeting, collector directed the officials concerned to carry out fitness tests of school buses and other vehicles running in the city and ensure that they are run as per the rule of the law.
He directed IMC officials to make a project report for the development of a bus stand for state carriage buses near Rajiv Gandhi Square and submit the same at the earliest. In the meeting, a decision was also taken to run vegetables mandis at Nandlalpura, Patnipura, Malwa Mill and Pipliyahana properly. As informed in the meeting, auto rickshaws stands have been earmarked in various parts of the city and these stands will have notice boards showing auto fares for various destinations in the city.