Stage carriage permits: Private bus operators issued notices

JALANDHAR: Initiating the process to cancel repeated/multiple extensions of stage carriage permits beyond the permissible limit of 24 km, the Punjab transport department has issued notices to private bus operators for personal hearing, which is in pursuance of earlier notices issued to operators in August last year.
Names of a few very prominent companies are not there in the first list of 138 operators who have been asked to appear for personal hearing.The state transport commissioner said that they would issue similar notices to all operators whose permits had such extension. These operators have been asked to appear before the state transport commissioner on a scheduled date and time.
While names of companies belonging to former Congress minister Avtar Henry and his son Bawa Henry and Faridkot Congress MLA Kushaldeep Singh ‘Kicky’ Dhillon are there in the list, names of operators belonging to Badal family or their associates are missing in the list so far.