MUMBAI: The Mira Bhayander Municipal Corporation (MBMC) has released four of its buses that were impounded by the Thane Regional Transport Office (RTO) in May.
The buses were impounded after the private operator Kestrel Infrastructure failed to deposit the Child Nutrition Surcharge (CNS) collected from commuters for malnourished children into the state kitty. The impounded vehicles were included in the fleet of buses after the intervention of MBMC officials. The operators have promised to deposit the CNS and penalty.
As the buses were impounded, the civic administration had to suspend a few services. Public transport buses in Maharashtra, including the BEST buses in Mumbai, Thane Municipal Transport buses, Navi Mumbai buses, Vasai Virar Municipal Transport buses, Mira-Bhayander buses and Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) buses, set aside 10 to 15 paise of the ticket fare as CNS to tackle malnutrition deaths in the state.
The surcharge is being levied since 1997 by the then Sena-BJP government. Kestrel Infrastructure has failed to deposit the CNS with the state treasury since October 2010 when it bagged the contract.
The matter was first bought to the notice of the Thane RTO in November last year by the local unit of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS). The RTO had then fined the operator Rs 4,000. Notices to deposit the CNS was send to the operators who failed to comply. Kestrel Infrastructure officials had admitted to using the surcharge to run the buses on a daily basis as their demand for a fare hike had been shot down by the civic administration.
The buses are run by the contractors who pay a royalty of Re one a km to the civic administration. The drivers and conductors are also hired on contractual basis. The contractor runs 102 buses, 50 of which were procured under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). Operators have been fighting for a roll back of the surcharge which is pending with the state government.
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