Chandigarh: The Vigilance Bureau has found the buses owned by Badal family, SAD leader Nirmal Singh Kahlon and former BJP leader Jagdish Sahni illegal.
Chandigarh: The Vigilance Bureau has found the buses owned by Badal family, SAD leader Nirmal Singh Kahlon and former BJP leader Jagdish Sahni illegal.
The VB with the help of police and transport department challaned 454 buses running without the authenticated route permits, registration certificates, driving licences and road tax documents.
Even the VB was shocked when it unearthed that some of the buses had fake number plates. According to the information, the authorities challaned the buses belong to the companies owned by Badal family, SAD leader Nirmal Singh Kahlon, former BJP leader Jagdish Sahni and Congress leader Avtar Henry.
The VB has been challaning the illegal buses as the Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has ordered the department to take action and submit the time bound report. The sources in the transport department revealed that companies whose buses have challaned include Orbit, A to Z and the company owned by Badal family. Another private bus company Baba Budha Bus Service belongs to the SAD leader Nirmal Singh Kahlon.
Sahni Transport Company is owned by the former BJP MLA Jagdish Sahni. The former Congress minister Avtar Henry is the owner of Kartar Bus Service. Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh had committed that he would eliminate the transport mafia from the state.
It is shocking that the illegal buses found by VB belong to the Badal family and the buses were flaunting the rules and regulations. It is crystal clear that the previous SAD-BJP government deliberately put all the rules and regulations to get huge profits from their own companies.
The state exchequer has been bearing the financial loss of the private bus services as the state transport was totally ignored in the regime of the previous government. The current move of the Punjab government will be beneficial for the state transport department to generate huge revenues. Moreover the new transport policy being framed by the ruling government would put a nail in the coffin of transport mafia.
