With few conductors, bus services suffer Rs3cr loss
Proshun Chakraborty | TNN | Nov 15, 2018, 03:57 IST
With no efforts from the NMC to clear dues of three red bus operators, the city bus service remain affected on... Read MoreNagpur: Despite having two ticketing agencies with over 1,500 conductors for operating the city bus service, Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has suffered a loss of over Rs3 crore till November 12 this year as many buses could not be operated for want of conductors.
NMC, through three bus operators plies 320 red buses. Due to non-availability of conductors almost every day, the civic body struggles to smoothly run the bus service. On November 12, the three operators had to cancel 61 services due to absence of conductors.
In a report submitted to NMC’s transport department, three red bus operators — Travel Time (losses pegged at Rs61.80 lakh), Hansa City Bus services Pvt Ltd (Rs1.91 crore) and R K City Bus operations (Rs89.77 lakh) — claimed every day they faced a shortage of conductors in both shifts and were suffering losses. This amount could have been used to pay dues of operators for a month.
In letters to NMC’s transport department the three operators stated, “Due to conductors’ shortage, we incurred huge losses and it is very difficult to continue our operations.” The worst affected depot is Hingna, which has the highest earning per kilometre as far as passengers’ ridership is concerned with many educational institutions and industries situated there, a senior officer from the NMC’s transport department said.
TOI found sudden cancellation of buses had irked many commuters as they were forced to travel in overcrowded buses.
Transport committee chairman Bunty Kukde admitted the shortage of conductors. Delhi Integrated Multimodal Transit System Ltd (DIMTS), which is assigned to monitor the entire operation, is responsible for engaging conductors. It has appointed two agencies — Security and Intelligence Services (SIS) has 300 conductors and Unity Infrastructure has 1,200. Together they operate 320 buses. SIS was not able to provide adequate number of conductors, Kukde said.
He claimed directives had been issued to the transport department to initiate action to terminate services of SIS for this failing.
NMC, through three bus operators plies 320 red buses. Due to non-availability of conductors almost every day, the civic body struggles to smoothly run the bus service. On November 12, the three operators had to cancel 61 services due to absence of conductors.
In a report submitted to NMC’s transport department, three red bus operators — Travel Time (losses pegged at Rs61.80 lakh), Hansa City Bus services Pvt Ltd (Rs1.91 crore) and R K City Bus operations (Rs89.77 lakh) — claimed every day they faced a shortage of conductors in both shifts and were suffering losses. This amount could have been used to pay dues of operators for a month.
In letters to NMC’s transport department the three operators stated, “Due to conductors’ shortage, we incurred huge losses and it is very difficult to continue our operations.” The worst affected depot is Hingna, which has the highest earning per kilometre as far as passengers’ ridership is concerned with many educational institutions and industries situated there, a senior officer from the NMC’s transport department said.
TOI found sudden cancellation of buses had irked many commuters as they were forced to travel in overcrowded buses.
Transport committee chairman Bunty Kukde admitted the shortage of conductors. Delhi Integrated Multimodal Transit System Ltd (DIMTS), which is assigned to monitor the entire operation, is responsible for engaging conductors. It has appointed two agencies — Security and Intelligence Services (SIS) has 300 conductors and Unity Infrastructure has 1,200. Together they operate 320 buses. SIS was not able to provide adequate number of conductors, Kukde said.
He claimed directives had been issued to the transport department to initiate action to terminate services of SIS for this failing.
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