Due to the non-availability of public transport during evening hours, commuters in the twin districts of south Kashmir’s Kulgam and Shopian have been facing problems.
The problem as per locals has got further aggravated as winter has already started.
A group of people from these two districts told news agency Kashmir News Trust that Arreh, Nillow, Pariwan, Pombay, Nehama, Chansar, Khandipora, Pardpora, Mohammedpora, Okey, Bumbrath, Kakran, and the adjacent villages face a lot of inconvenience due to non-availability of public transport shortly after the sun-set.
“It has been there for a long, and no effort was made in past and even in present to solve the problem. During the evening the mini-busses and Sumos start disappearing from the roads,” they said.
The office goers and people going out for work face a lot of difficulties in such conditions,’ they said and appealed to authorities to resolve this issue at the earliest in the interest of the general public.
Deputy Commissioner Kulgam, meanwhile, has directed that the bus stations in Kulgam town be removed in a bid to “decongest” the town.
“The general public of District Kulgam is hereby informed through the medium of this notice that to decongest the traffic in the main town, a shuttle service (Intra Town service of 3-Wheeler Passenger Autos and Tata Magic, Having Red’ coloured Passes pasted on their wind screen ) has been started .within the Town on following routes (At Uniform Fare (a Rs.1O per Passenger),” an official communique of the ARTO Kulgam read.
And for the convenience of the general public,a help desk is hereby constituted as below: (1) Manzoor Ahmad Dar (9797232739) (2) Ella’ Ahmad Soil (9419043353) (3) Mohammad Shafi Malik (9906157359) (4) Shabir Ahmad Dar (6005738848), the order further read.
Decongesting the traffic jamming at the cost of Rs 10 extra fare will have adverse impact on poor commuters especially the students.ARTO Kulgam must review the decongestion policy once and draft such a road map in which the overall passenger fare must remain the same
— Fayaz Abdullah (@FayazAbdullah2) December 11, 2022
“Decongesting the traffic jamming at the cost of Rs 10 extra fare will have adverse impact on poor commuters especially the students. ARTO Kulgam must review the decongestion policy once and draft such a road map in which the overall passenger fare must remain the same,” Fayaz Adullah, a social media user wrote. With inputs from KNT