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Time of India
2 days ago
- Time of India
Fire breaks out at inoperative city transport office in Ujjain, probe on
Ujjain: A fire broke out at the office of City Transport Service Limited, which was non-operational for the past eight months, during the night between Friday and Saturday on Maxi Road in Ujjain. The blaze engulfed the building before it could be doused. Three fire engines responded to the emergency. The response team broke the windows on the first floor to ventilate the smoke before extinguishing the flames. The fire consumed curtains, furniture, papers, and files on the premises within no time. Confirming that an FIR was lodged in the incident, commissioner Ashish Pathak said, "An investigation is being conducted by a committee under the direction of additional commissioner. Old workshop scrap and the 2013 log book were burned in the fire. No records of the city bus were damaged. Previously, the office of MPSRTC was located here, and its records were also kept here. The fire broke out in the workshop office section. " A Congress delegation led by leader of opposition Ravi Rai inspected the city bus company's office on Sunday to evaluate the damage. Alleging a foul play, Rai stated, "The fire occurred in the office's record room and the cupboard was empty. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Is it legal? How to get Internet without paying a subscription? Techno Mag Learn More Undo There was a large pile of papers in one spot that caught fire. The electrical boards were only partially melted, whereas in a short circuit fire, the boards would have been completely burnt, eventually spreading the fire. It is evident that the fire was deliberately set." Mayor Mukesh Tatwal, when questioned about the incident, mentioned that he was in Patalkot and learned about the fire through media reports since officials had not informed him directly.
India Today
16-06-2025
- Business
- India Today
Why MP is bringing the state back into road transport
Two decades after the state-owned Madhya Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (MPSRTC) was shut down in 2005, the MP government plans to introduce a bus service in the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) mode and has set up a transport authority for its regulation. A consultant has been appointed to prepare a report after identifying the routes and the potential income from them. Identification of the routes is likely to be completed for the Indore, Ujjain and Jabalpur divisions, and the service is likely to start in at least two of the divisions by the end of the current financial year.'Almost every state has a transport service that caters to the marginalised communities in remote areas,' said MP transport minister Rao Uday Pratap Singh. 'The service will also connect such remote areas with the bigger towns and cities. The chief minister has been very keen to resume this service, as its absence had compelled financially weaker people to buy bikes on loans, mostly leading to defaults in payment. We hope the service will help the cause of public transport.'advertisementThe service operators will be private entities, with the government just being the regulator. The transport authority will fix the fares and allot the routes. Operators will have to pick up less profitable routes along with profitable ones, as part of a responsibility—much like airlines being allotted non-profitable sectors along with profitable state presently has private buses plying on routes allotted to them. By the time it was shut down in 2005, the MPSRTC had been running on losses for close to a decade, with an accumulated loss of more than Rs 750 crore. Its fleet strength at its peak was around 2,700 buses, of which only around 850 were operational when it was shut down. The number of employees, however, remained the same—with the bus-to-employee ratio at a high of 1:11—adding to Another big reason for the losses was government interference in running the service and allotment of routes, besides recruitment of staff way above to India Today Magazine
