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The BMTC has incurred a Rs. 61-crore loss in 2014-15.
To check such illegal services, officials of the department, BMTC and RTOs have been directed to step up inspections on BMTC routes, particularly on outer ring roads and seize private vehicles that pick up and drop passengers illegally, Transport Minister Ramalinga Reddy told presspersons.
Mr. Reddy instructed Transport Commissioner Rame Gowda to work out a strategy to seize private-stage carriage buses and maxi-cabs plying on BMTC routes. Private buses, contract carriages and maxi-cabs that pick up and drop passengers at various points in cities eat into BMTC’s revenue, Mr Reddy said.
He said that private buses are not supposed to park near BMTC bus stands. But such a norm was regularly being violated in the presence of police and Transport Department officials. However, Mr Reddy said, the department had no objection in picking up employees by vehicles hired by firms.
BMTC operates 6,207 schedules and operate 76,052 trips a day carrying five million passengers a day.
‘Private buses, contract carriages and maxi-cabs that pick up and drop passengers at various points in cities eat into BMTC’s revenue’
