SAD leader joins PRTC, Punbus employees’ protest; demands reinstatement
Former minister Bikram Singh Majithia on Sunday demanded that the AAP government immediately reinstate 302 Punjab Roadways Transport Corporation and Punbus employees who had been ‘arbitrarily thrown out of service and blacklisted’, over the course of the last few years. Former minister Bikram Singh Majithia on Sunday demanded that the AAP government immediately reinstate 302 […]Read More
Punjab Transport Department accepts demands of employees
The Transport Department has accepted the major demands of the Punjab Roadways, PUNBUS/PRTC Contract Workers’ Union. A decision to this effect was taken in a meeting held here at the Chief Minister’s Office on Monday. Additional Principal Secretary to CM Himanshu Jain and Director, State Transport, Amandeep Kaur, held parleys with a delegation of union […]Read More
AAP, Cong spar over resuming luxury bus service
Laljit Singh Bhullar was responding to a supplementary question by Leader of Opposition Partap Singh Bajwa during the question hour Opposition Congress on Wednesday cornered Punjab Transport Minister Laljit Singh Bhullar on the issue of direct luxury buses to Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi when it asked the minister to table the supporting documents […]Read More
Punjab CM Mann to flag off luxurious buses from Amritsar to Delhi airport on June 15
The Punjab government has decided to launch direct buses from Amritsar to Delhi airport. The AC bus will cost around Rs 1,390 and all the facilities available on private buses will be given on these buses. The Punjab government has decided to run direct buses from Amritsar to Delhi airport with the same facilities as […]Read More
State-run buses to resume services to Delhi airport soon: Punjab minister
After a discussion between the chief ministers of Punjab and Delhi, the issue has been taken up during the secretary-level meeting of transport departments of both the states, Bhullar said Bus services of the state-owned undertakings up to the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport in Delhi will resume soon, Punjab transport minister Laljit Singh Bhullar […]Read More
Income from govt buses has increased by Rs 7.98 crore: Transport minister
The minister said daily collection of the transport department had registered an increase of Rs 53 lakh approximately. “After strictness against defaulters, the department has collected Rs 3.29 crore as part of pending government tax and majority of the amount has been deposited by the big companies/operators,” he added. PRESENTING HIS ‘report card’ of 21 […]Read More
Daily revenue of Punjab govt buses up Rs 45 lakh in 3 weeks
Three weeks after assuming charge as Punjab’s Transport Minister, Gidderbaha MLA Amrinder Singh Raja Warring today claimed the revenue of state-owned buses had increased by Rs 45 lakh per day since he took over. Talking to The Tribune, Warring said, “We have impounded more than 150 private buses in the last about 20 days for […]Read More
Every bus plying on Punjab roads will have to pay tax, says Transport Minister Raja Warring
Transport Minister Amarinder Singh Raja Warring made a surprise visit at Shaheed Madan Lal Dhingra Inter State Bus Stand (ISBT) on Sunday, where 20 unauthorised buses of private operators, including one bus of the Orbit Aviation, was impounded due to incomplete documents. He said: “The evasion of tax, plying of illegal buses and bus mafia […]Read More
Punjab: Transport minister impounds 20 ‘unauthorised’ private buses including three of Badals
On the instructions of the transport minister, officers of the department impounded 23 unauthorised buses of private operators — including three of Orbit Aviation and two of New Deep bus service — due to incomplete documents, from in and around the ISBT premises. Punjab Transport Minister Amarinder Singh Raja Warring on Sunday visited Shaheed Madam […]Read More
‘In next ten days, people will say transport mafia in Punjab has ended’
Raja Warring tells that “no one showed spine to impound buses run by Badals”, adding the he will not stop before transport mafia is wiped out from the state. In days after taking charge of transport department, first time minister and Congress MLA from Gidderbaha, Amrinder Singh Raja Warring, is regularly hitting headlines over crackdown […]Read More
