Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, Aug 28: In a release, Karnataka State Transport Operators Association said that the association had submitted a request to the government to meet several of its demands including road tax waiver for private buses. The association stated that if its demands are not met, it has been decided to undertake dharna and agitation.

In a release, chairman of the state association, S Nataraj Sharma, president, Rajavarma Ballal, and Mangaluru City Bus Owners Association president, Dilraj Alva, stated that the organisation had made repeated demands to the transport department, transport minister and chief secretary of the state transport department seeking to meet their demands.

Representational image

They said that after holding discussions transport department secretary, Anjum Parvez and additional chief secretary, P Ravikumar, had promised to meet the demands. They said that these officials had asked the chief secretary to send proposal to finance ministry.

They warned that if their demands are not met, they will sit on protest demonstration on September 5.