Bus body builders to move SC against code

Gagandeep Singh

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, March 26

Bus body builders from across the country have decided to challenge the implementation of the bus code in the Supreme Court. The code will prevent them from engineering bus bodies. 

After meeting Kamal Sharma, state head of the BJP, they planned to take the issue to the Supreme Court of India. 

The bus code will be implemented across the country from April 1.There are around 3,000 bus body builders in the country. Therefore, implementation of the bus code will render lakhs of skilled workers jobless, including 7,000 from Jalandhar. 

Speaking to the Jalandhar Tribune, Gurjeet Singh, chairman, Collaborative Advance Research for Transport (CART) said, “We have approached the Union Minister for Road Transport, Highway and Shipping, Nitin Gadkari, to withdraw the bus code, but he seems be adamant to implement the same.”

He said the minister concerned had taken the decision under pressure of the big manufacturers in the country as after the implementation of the bus code, they would be able make bus bodies.

“Meanwhile, we have decided to approach the Supreme Court of India to challenge the same as the state BJP head appeared reluctant to help us out,” he added.

Gurjeet said a similar code was also envisaged during the UPA government in 2010, which 

was not implemented keeping in mind the employment issue. 

Speaking to the Jalandhar Tribune, RP Singh, DTO, Jalandhar, said they had received a letter in this regard and would perform duties as per instructions.