Mini-bus operators demand monetary relief

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, March 28

Mini-bus operators in the state have sought monetary relief from the government amid losses being incurred in their business owing to the lockdown in the wake of coronavirus spread.

Representatives of the Mini-Bus Bachao `Action Committee Surjit Singh Soeta and Jarnail S Garhdiwala have written to Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh, seeking tax waiver for four months and an immediate relief of Rs 20,000 per mini-bus to the operators.

The operators alleged while permits of 4,000 buses had been cancelled in 2018 by the state government, a political family in the state was allowed to operate 1,000 of the 3,000 big buses.

They suggested that the relief fund would not be much of a burden on the state government as it could come from the Sukhmani Sewa Society funds in all districts.