Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (NR)
Pics: Dayanand Kukkaje
 
Mangalore, Jan 8: A ‘Transport Adalat’ was held at RTO office here on Monday January 7.
 
Addressing the gathering RTO Sadashiv informed that all learners of driving schools will be made to learn on a driving track, to be constructed near Vamanjoor, for training. However from February 15, a temporary track will be ready for use while the main track will be made operational later. He further said, a test was being conducted in the premises of the office itself. But this was not easy due to traffic congestion.

Giving details Sadashiv said the department had identified and had plans of developing a 2 acre plot of land at Devi Nagar near St Joseph's engineering college in Vamajoor, as a full-fledged driving track. An estimate of Rs 75 lac had been sent to the state government, he said and expressed the hope that the required fund would be sanctioned in the forthcoming budget.
 
Deputy transport commissioner Maruthi M Sambrani said that since making speed governors mandatory, was the decision of the High Court, the issue was out of the jurisdiction of transport department. He was responding to a request that certain vehicles should be excluded from adopting speed governors, in Shimoga division.

With regard to observations that the paid auto stands, like that of lying unused near KSRTC bus stand and railway station, are unnecessary for the city, Sadashiva answered that such experiments had been by and large successful in Bangalore city. He however, assured that further action would be taken regarding them once a detail examination is done.

An allegation was made by the Nagarika Hitarakshana Samiti (NHS) president Hanumanth Kamath that there is illegal connivance between the transport department and bus owners, and "at the same time the activities of the ‘middlemen’ were increasing in the transport office", he alleged further.
 
Also several complaints were received pertaining to the unsystematic management of private buses within the city. Some people informed that many buses which had permission to go only up to Kankanady, go to State Bank bus stop and deceive the transport department. Another complaint was that some buses which were actually required to go up to State Bank, would force the passengers to get down at Kankanady.