Regional Transport Office will be taking strict actions against vehicles which are found overloading, working as stage carriages on the permit of contract carriages, stopping at spots other than designated stops.
District traffic police have also banned city buses, Vikrams and other public transport vehicles from stopping inside the 50 metres radius from main junctions and roundabouts in the city.
Regional Transport Officer Dinesh Pathoi told The Pioneer, “We will be conducting a similar drive as the one we did against the Vikrams which were operating as stage carriages.This campaign will be for city buses, which are operating in the city and have complaints of over loading on some routes.
We will also be checking the uniforms of the driver and the conductors. The campaign will start by end of the first week of June.”
Superintendent of Police (traffic) Prakash Chandra Arya said, “For the operation of smooth traffic in we have banned public transport vehicles including buses, three-wheelers and e-rickshaws from stopping within 50 metres radius of major intersections. We have also distributed applications for the verification of bus owners, conductors and drivers.”
It is pertinent to mention here that RTO in their three day drive have issued 203 challans and seized 17 vehicles. Assistant Regional Transport Officer (ARTO) Arvind Pandey said that they will be keeping a check on those transports, which are over loading and taking extra charges.