License will be cancelled if city buses fail to install GPS, warns DC

License will be cancelled if city buses fail to install GPS, warns DC

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangaluru, Dec 05, 2020:    Deputy Commissioner Dr K V Rajendra has warned that licenses of city buses in Mangaluru which fail to install GPS facility will be cancelled.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Addressing a meeting of  Regional Transport Authority at the DC office auditorium here on December 4,  Friday, the DC said  GPS installation is mandatory  in view of the safety of passengers. The GPS installation should  be done within the next 15 days failing which stern action will follow, the DC warned. He also stated that already the bus operators have been aksed many times to install GPS.

Officials present in the meeting informed that  only 70 out of the 320 buses in Mangaluru city limits  have GPS facility. Responding to this, City Bus Operators’ Association President Dilraj Alva said bus owners have already been asked to install GPS.

Representatives of autorickshaw drivers’ unions present in the meeting  stressed  the need to develop auto parks which have been shifted during Smart City works.

Mangaluru RTO  R M Varnekar, SP B M Laxmiprasad,  MCC  Deputy Commissioner   Santosh Kumar, Traffic ACP Nataraj and others were present.