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| Video Coach Bus Union aghast over functioning of SDA | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Oct 4: A meeting of Video Coach Bus Union was held here on Thursday under the chairmanship of Syed Shabir Ahmad Shah. The meeting criticized the functioning of the Srinagar Development Authority.
The members of the Union expressed their helplessness in operating buses due to the lack of parking space in Srinagar city. While expressing concern over the 'mal-practices' going on in the SDA, they said that the Union through Blue Bird Tour and Travel has applied for the allotment of parking space in the newly established bus stand at Pantha Chowk. "But for the obvious reasons Director Land Management (DLM) posted in SDA is delaying the case on the one pretext or the other," they alleged.
"DLM 's ill intention can be gauged from the fact that she even has no respect for the High Court order (in which the court has directed the transport companies to vacate the Lal Chowk area) and is raising baseless objections which exist nowhere in the bylaws," they alleged. ""Blue Bird Tour and Travel Transport Company has fulfilled all the formalities the SDA had asked for, including the MTSNL license issued by the transport Commissioner J&K government, but despite that the said file has been kept in the personal custody/brief case of the DLM ( Shabnam Akhter) for the reasons best known to her."
The members of the Union praised the then vice Chairman Srinagar Development Authority Mohammad Shafi Rather who gave patient hearing to the Union and almost had approved the file for the allotment of parking space at the Pantha Chowk. "But he (Rather) was unfortunately transferred when the final order was to be issued," they added.
They alleged that mafia/musclemen who are hand in glove with some corrupt officials of SDA are illegally operating their vehicles without having any valid permission or MTSNL issued by the transport commissioner.
The members of the Union appealed to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and Urban Development Minister Rigzin Jora to intervene. |
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