“PTA determined to improve condition of public transport†Secretary PTA Abdul Khaliq expresses Govt.’s resolve to facilitate passengers; warns strict action against unauthorized rickshaws plying in provincial metropolis
- April 22, 2015, 11:00 am
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QUETTA: The Secretary Provincial Transport Authority (PTA), Abdul Khaliq Mandokhail has expressed the government’s resolve to facilitate the passengers travelling on the public transport every possibly.
He was speaking at a meeting held to review the condition of the buses, discuss matters about bringing improvement in their condition and facilitate the passengers here the other day.
The meeting was attended by the representative of Regional Transport Authority, Jan Muhammad Muhammad Hassani, President of Mutahida Local Bus Union, Babu Shafi Muhammad Lehri, Sher Ahmed Baloch, Abdul Ali Kakar, Saeed Ahmed Samalani and others.
The meeting discussed the ways and means to improve the condition of public transport and thus to facilitate the passengers. It was also discussed to behave well with the passengers by the transporters besides ensuring avoidance of travelling of the students on tops of the local buses.
The Secretary PTA on the occasion noted with satisfaction that condition of the public transport is being improved in the province. Condition of around 70 percent buses plying on different routes has been improved, Abdul Khaliq Mandohail maintained.
He said that no compromise would be made over provision of faculties to the passengers in the province. So, all the transporters should ensure to facilitate their passengers on their respective routes and no complaints should be received in this regard.
Otherwise action would be taken against them, he warned.
Meanwhile, a meeting on the issues of rickshaws was also held with Secretary PTA in the chair the other day.
The issues regarding fixation of the meters in rickshaws and those plying unauthorized and without number plates were discussed in the meeting.
The Secretary Regional Transport Authority (RTA), Amanullah Panezai, Motor vehicle examiner, Ghous Bakhsh Kurd, office bearers of the rickshaw union Mir Ghulam Jan Shahwani and other concerned were also present in the meeting.
It was decided to take stern action by the Traffic Police against the unauthorized rickshaws in the metropolis. In this regard, it was also decided that during crackdown, the rickshaw union would also be involved so as to make the campaign against illegal rickshaws more effective.
The rickshaw owners / drivers were made bound to place the computerized number plates at their respective rickshaws. The hurdles in fixation of the fare rate meters would also be removed, it was decided further.
It was noted that the illegal rickshaws are being brought through trains and buses in the city, so the concerned authorities would be made bound to ask the rickshaw owners to get NOC from the RTA first.
