The District Road Transport Authority meeting was held today in the office of the Deputy Commissioner D.K.District. The meeting chaired by Mr.Parshwanath Deputy Commissioner DK, was attended by the Mr.B.Dayananda SPDK (Member), Mr.Ramesh RTO (Secretary) and Mr.Seva Naik RTO Puttur (Adl Secretary). Several Bus operators through their advocates represented before the Authority. In addition many common people also participated in the meeting and gave representations about various issues related to their transport problems.
As the meeting was held after a long gap of two years (last meeting on 27-12-2003) nearly about 742 subjects came up before the meeting. They mainly related to ;
- Subjects referred/remanded to by the Karnataka State Transport Appellate Authority (KSTAT), the State High court and other Courts for consideration by the RTA -256
- Subjects that were deferred in the previous meeting - 124
- Subjects pertaining to grant of fresh permits in the City route - 160
- Subjects pertaining to grant of fresh permits in mofussil areas - 133
- Subjects pertaining to variation of routes by existing operators - 67
- Subjects pertaining to Cancellation and renewal of Permits - (02)
Before commencement of the meeting as per agenda, the advocates representing the various Bus Opertors drew the attention of the Authority to the various decisions passed by the KSTAT and the courts on issue of fresh permits. In this regard they highlighted that formulation of routes by the State Govt and Joint Road Survey is a must before issue of fresh permits. Later the Authority called the subjects as per agenda and gave oppurtunity to the applicant as well as for others to file oblections if any to various proposals.
The meeting lasted for about four hours.
It was decided to hold these meetings regularly in the feature. Further as per the request of the advocates, it was agreed to keep these meetings on third saturday of the month. Accordingly the meetings will be convened on third saturday of the month every three months regularly in the future. Further the date of pronouncement of decisions of the meeting will also be intimated in advance to the comcerned as per the request made.
