Transport Secretary, Ratan Kumar took district transport officers to task for not putting wholehearted efforts to improve revenue collection. While holding a meeting with the DTOs of all districts to review revenue collection progress, Kumar, cautioned officials against taking the orders of lightly and facing consequences for turning a deaf ear to the directions.
According to sources, the department collected around `90-crore in two months of the current financial year. Notably, the department has set a target of `900-crore revenue collection in 2015-16.
“We will not tolerate any delinquency of duty. Whatever target given to each district must be achieved without exception,” said Kumar.
The department has set target for each districts to reach the target for revenue collection and similarly around 10 active check posts have been informed about their target. The Secretary sought improvement in performance before next meeting and asked officials to come up with good results in next meeting to avoid disciplinary action.
Sources in the department confided that the Secretary also sought report on compliance related to overloading and rapped officials for turning a blind eye to problem of overloading that affects revenue collection.
The meeting was attended by Joint Secretary, SK Sinha and all DTOs.