Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)
Mangaluru, Nov 21: Taking into account frequent requests received from bus owners to revise and hike the bus fares, citing volatile prices of diesel and spare parts, chairman of regional transport authority (RTA) and deputy commissioner of Dakshina Kannada district, A B Ibrahim, announced that it has been decided to revise bus fares twice a year with a gap of six months in between.
He gave this information at the meeting of RTA held in the office of the deputy commissioner on Thursday November 20.
The DC made the above announcement after workers of Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) and others pointed out that bus owners had not brought down bus fares even after diesel prices fell.
Resisting demand for downward revision of bus fares, president of Canara Bus Operators Union,Rajavarma Ballal, said that diesel prices alone cannot be sole factors for reducing fares. He said cost of spare parts keep going up now and then. He also stated that bus fares go up only once although diesel prices undergo frequent revisions. He therefore felt that the demand to reduce fares has no justification.