Haryana Transport Minister Krishan lal Panwar on Tuesday directed all general managers of Roadways to ensure that those buses which have been lying unused in depots for a long time are made operational at the earliest.
Panwar while presiding over a meeting of general managers of Roadways here said that if the current staff and available resources are utilised properly, better transport services could be provided to people by making unused buses operational.
Following the directions of the Transport Minister, the general managers said that they would make arrangements to ply the unused buses within one week.
Panwar also directed the senior officers of the Department to visit Roadways depots regularly and check whether the buses are being run properly or not.
If any negligence is found then strict action should be initiated against the officer concerned.
He said that minimal staff should be kept for services like yard and crane and maximum staff should be deployed for running buses.
Panwar said that such staff who are unable to drive buses should be engaged in services like yard and crane. He also asked the general managers to soon prepare a list of unused buses which are not fit so that they could be declared defunct.
During the meeting, some general managers said that they were understaffed whereas some said that they were overstaffed on which the Minister directed that employees working in the overstaffed depots be shifted to the understaffed depots.
The Transport Minister added that the recruitment process of various posts in the Department is being carried out at a fast pace to remove the shortage of staff.