Punjab to soon implement transparent bus timetable

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Punjab to soon implement transparent bus timetable

Thursday, 07 October 2021 | PNS | Chandigarh

Punjab Government will soon implement a transparent bus timetable. The announcement was made by the State Transport Minister Amarinder Singh Raja Warring considering the strong demand of all small private bus operators, tourist, mini and school bus operators and taxi unions of Punjab.

Warring, during a series of meetings, assured that a transparent and apt bus timetable would be worked out and implemented soon. At the same time, he said that they may also be given exemption from taxes for the period of Covid-19.

“I am well aware that around 90 percent of the bus industry is associated with small bus operators and employing more than 1.5 lakh people in the State. While the State will deal sternly with the big bus mafia, simultaneously, the small bus industry would not be allowed to die,” Warring said during the meeting with the delegation of small bus operators led by Faridkot MLA Kushaldeep Singh Dhillon.

Regarding the demand for tax exemption to the bus operators, the Transport Minister said that the Department would come up with a kilometer-wise slab scheme for tax exemption in the next few days besides considering extending the Amnesty Scheme till March 31, 2022.

He categorically said that the tax defaulter bus operators will have to pay the taxes of the pre-Covid era at all costs, failing which nobody will be given the benefit of the extended amnesty scheme.

MLA Dhillon, elaborating the demands, said that the number of small bus operators in the State was high and they were constantly exploited by the big bus mafia, hence the small bus operators would be provided a level playing field in this profession.

The Transport Minister asked the representatives of private bus operators, mini and tourist bus operators unions, school bus operators and taxi unions to form three-member committees so that the demands could be acted upon in a short time.

He assured all the unions that the economy was affected all over the world and every section has suffered during the trying times of Covid and considering this aspect, the Government was mulling to extend exemptions to all sections involved in transport services.

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