BENGALURU: Participants of 10 NGOs running for the urban poor have advocated the Karnataka government to restart bus services of their Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC).
In a letter to chief ministry BS Yediyurappa on Wednesday, organisations like the Bengaluru Bus Prayanikara Vedike, Garment and Textile Workers’ Union and Domestic Workers Rights’ Union reported that leases should be declared with sufficient security protocols.
“We’ve 6,300 buses.
When we deploy all of the buses and run them with bodily distancing and venting, we could offer safe freedom to the bigger public throughout the pandemic.
The next wave along with the two-month lockdown has breached the financial crisis faced by the urban poor,” they said in a declaration.
Activists also need BMTC bus bookings to be decreased.
“We need that the tickets are costly at a couple of fixed/flat fare stinks…
to ensure crucial transportation is cheaper to people who’ve lost their jobs have no earnings for the last two months,” the announcement said.
“Commuters have to be paid for your April bus as it couldn’t be used due to the strike” The NGOs stated that the transportation needs of construction employees, security guardsand hospital employees, home helps, street sellers and many others had been contemplated from the unlock procedure.
“To some two-month lockdown, a rated exit, with just the wealthy being permitted to move? That is discriminatory and contrary to our best to equality”, their announcement included.
NGOs urge govt to Resume BMTC buses
