Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP)

Mangalore, Dec 6: The Supreme Court, through an order, has banned the movement of private buses on the national highway between the city and Kasargod. Based on this order, the regional transport office in Kasargod has issued notices to the private bus operators.

38 bus services from Karnataka and 21 from Kerala received the notices and stopped plying their buses between the two cities from Saturday December 5 onwards.

In the meanwhile, district collector of Kasargod, Anand Singh, has issued temporary permits to a few buses till December 7. The order of the apex court says that that the buses that pay double point taxes in the inter-state route should stop operations.

As only the government buses will be available for the people on this route henceforth, many students and people, who depended on private buses, will face lot of inconveniences, as the government buses are not in a position to meet the needs of the bus passengers. The employees of the buses, which used to run on this route, too face the prospects of losing their jobs.