State representative of Uttarakhand Roadways in ISBT Delhi, deputy general manager is likely to meet transport department officials of New Delhi on Monday. According to the sources if need be someone from Dehradun will also be there at the meeting for the mutual agreement to be signed between the two states. The warning letter issued by the state traffic department of New Delhi on Saturday states that without Memorandum of Understanding roadways buses going to and from Uttarakhand to Delhi will be banned from entering inside capital’s border. If the Uttarakhand administration failed to sign MOU with Delhi in the given time period, it will directly affect 20 to 25 thousand passengers on a daily basis.
General Secretary of Uttaranchal Roadways Employees Union, Ashok Chaudhary said, “A warning letter was sent to Uttarakhand among the seven states by the Delhi government. We have spoken with the management; they will be working on it on Monday. State representatives will meet the Delhi transport department officials. They are already working on an agreement letter. We have asked the Uttarakhand Transport Corporation to resolve this issue at the earliest.”
It is pertinent to mention here that the Delhi transport department on Saturday issued a warning letter to Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Jammu and Kashmir. If the prohibition is imposed, about 450 buses of Uttarakhand roadways would be barred from entering Delhi.