Transport Minister announced 20 SRTC buses for Doda-Kishtwar: Saroori

Omar arriving Kishtwar on 18th could make announcement in this regard.

Jammu, April 16:- Former Minister and MLA Inderwal Ghulam Mohammad Saroori said that Transport Minister Chowdhary Mohammad Ramzan today announced that State Road Transport Corporation (SRTC) will provide 20 buses to Doda and Kishtwar District with in week’s time.

In a statement issued from here”, Ghulam Mohammad Saroori said that decision in this regard was taken during his meeting with Transport Minister at civil secretariat Jammu which beside him was also attended by the officials of SRTC and Transport Department. He said that during the course of the meeting with Transport Minister, several issues pertaining to transport department were discussed including the burning issue of growing rate of accidents in mountainous Districts of Doda and Kishtwar. He said that in order to minimize the number of accidents in Doda and Kishtwar District, stress was laid on to take some concrete and cohesive measure to overcome the problem of day to day accidents.

Mr. Saroori said that on his request, honorable Transport Minister directed Managing Director SRTC to provide 20 SRTC buses to Doda and Kishtwar District in next couple of days, beside directed them to take immediate steps in this regard so that Chief Minister Omar Abdullah could make public announcement in this regard during his visit to Kishtwar District schedule for 18th of this month.

He said that concern minister also directed RTO Jammu to take stern action against the traffic violators, beside to check menace of corruption while issuing the fitness certificates and PSV driving licenses.

He said that Union Transport Minister C.P Joshi has also assured him that he will provide funds for installation of crash barriers on Batote-Kishtwar-Sinthan road, Thatri-Gandow Road, Kishtwar-Padder-Sansari road and Bandarkoot-Patimhala road. He said that during the course of the meeting concern agencies was directed by the minister to prepare detail project report on installation of crash barriers so that same could submitted to Union Transport Ministry for approval.