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| Normal life in JK out of gear as vehicles remain off road | | | Ashwani Sharma
Early Times Report
Udhampur, Apr 23: As local transportation has entered day three without a move, the total halt has brought problems for commuters and others using public transportation.
With problems multiplied and aggravated, most people are reaching their offices very late while some are not at all going to their places of work and still others are seen on roadsides signaling the personal vehicles of people for a lift.
“I have joined a manufacturing unit at Battal Ballian few days back and was working hard to remain in good books of my boss but the halt of transporters has created unavoidable circumstances under which I am unable to reach my place of work in time which triggers wrath from my boss,” a factory worker from a village at Udhampur told this reporter. “I use to fetch milk daily in morning to about 80 households in Udhampur town but owing to the strike of transporters I keep on waiting for someone to carry my cans and me to Udhampur town so that I may provide milk to my customers who remain waiting for me daily,” Noor Din, 40, from Manwal said.
Similar were the problems of many other people in different districts of Jammu and Kashmir especially hilly areas of Jammu division who are not afforded private vehicles due to financial crises .
The leader of transporters Tarlochan Singh Wazir when contacted said that new guideline by the government to carry 50 per cent passengers is not viable.
“We know that these guidelines are genuine in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic but the authorities should have also hiked the fare too which they have not done and under these circumstances there was no other way left for us than to halt the vehicles. Govt order of 50 percent passengers fails us to afford oil fill in vehicles,” he maintained.
Yesterday we meet with transport commissioner Jammu and urged him to increase the fare and I hope govt will find some solution to tackle the problem, he added. Transport Commissioner Pradeep Kumar when contacted said that soon they will come out with some solution to tackle the problem.
However, he claimed that in Kashmir all is normal and some places in Jammu also playing the passenger vehicles including govt as well as private. |
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