Express News Service
CHANDIGARH: Political gamesmanship generally finally ends up benefitting the folks. Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Friday introduced that the state authorities would begin luxurious Volvo bus companies from totally different cities of the state to the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI) in New Delhi from June 15.
The transfer is outwardly aimed toward breaking the monopoly of personal bus operators, together with the businesses owned by a outstanding political household. “We have got the mandate of people to serve the state by eliminating mafia. Our government has already curbed liquor mafia through our new excise policy and today I am happy to announce that now transport mafia will also be a thing of past,” Mann mentioned in a video message.
He identified that for many years, solely non-public transporters had run their buses on this route and looted the folks by charging as per their whims and fancies. The CM mentioned the NRIs coming to Punjab at all times complained to him asking why solely non-public gamers had the best to ply buses on this route.
The luxurious buses run by the federal government will cost lower than half of the non-public transporters and provides double services, Mann proclaimed. The bookings could be finished by way of the web sites of Punjab Roadways and PUNBUS. The agenda of those buses can even be accessible on these web sites.
Sources mentioned these Volvo buses will ply between the IGI Airport and Ludhiana, Amritsar, Jalandhar, Kapurthala, Patiala, Hoshiarpur, Pathankot and Chandigarh. Thee fare is prone to be within the vary of Rs 800-Rs 1,400 as in comparison with Rs 1,600-Rs 2,600 charged by the non-public operators. Volvo buses from Punjab to the Delhi airport are being run largely by corporations owned by a strong political household. The AAP had promised to interrupt this monopoly.
