The transport corporation should lay emphasis on providing new facilities to the people and adopt a better work culture, said the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Harish Rawat while addressing top officials of Uttarakhand Transport Corporation (UTC) at his residence on Tuesday.
The Managing Director (MD) of the UTC Brijesh Kumar Sant met the CM after the corporation won six prizes for innovations recently at a programme organised to commemorate 50 years of Association of State RoadTransport Undertakings (ASRTU) in New Delhi.
Expressing his happiness at the achievement Rawat congratulated the UTC for this unique feat. He said that the felicitation would prompt the corporation to further improve its standards of serving the passengers. The CM asked the MD of UTC to bring the more impetus to the vehicle checking drive so that overloading is brought under control and ticketless travel is checked. He said the corporation should bring new avenues in its working and minimise the accidents.
Rawat suggested that the corporation should take services of better drivers for its fleet. The CM said that services like ‘Haridwar Darshan’ should start with the help of comfortable buses. He advocated for increasing the remuneration (given on per kilometer) of contractual drivers, limiting the working hours to eight and improving passenger amenities.
The MD informed the CM that corporation received the national level prizes for providing on line booking facilities and implementing better computerised system for the passengers. The award caries a citation, trophy and cash reward of `10 lakhs.
The General Manager (GM) Operations UTC Dipak Jain, Deputy General Manager (DGM) Mukesh Singh and other senior officials of the corporation were present on the occasion.