Bengaluru: Transportation operators, including taxi drivers and autorickshaw, worried weekends and evenings will further reduce their income.
Government transit agents who lack money such as BMTC, KSRTC and Namma Metro also keep their fingers crossing after the covid case soaring.
“We face a severe financial crisis but the government has imposed curfew at night and on weekends, which will then affect the transportation and tourism sector.
Over the past two years, the transportation segment has collapsed due to covid and working-from-house settings, “Said K Radhakrishna Holla, President, the Association of Karnataka State Travel Operators.
Holla said they struggled to pay for vehicle and business loans, GST, motor vehicle tax (MV) and insurance.
“We want the government to check Covid without influencing everyday business activities,” he said.
Tanveer Pasha, President Ola Uber Drivers and Owners Association, said: “The state government plays with the lives of people.
We have just begun to recover from previous locking losses but once again in a hurry to impose one more.
Most drivers only get a business During the weekend.
“He said most of the foreign cities have focused on awareness and enforcing the rules of the mask instead of total kuncian.
“The government must allow the company to open 24×7 to reduce the crowd in stores and on the road.
Most taxi drivers are in panic conditions because they are unable to buy other kuncians,” he said.
Manoj Padikkal, Chair (School Transportation Wing, South Zone), the Confederation of Bus and Car Operators in India, said: “Many school transport operators pay taxes MV and insurance premiums after several schools opened two months ago.
But now all schools have been closed and people have been closed and now Old refused to pay transportation costs.
There are no exceptions of MV tax.
Many transporter may leave business if the government continues to force restrictions.
“C Sampath, Secretary General, Union Adarsh ​​Auto Drivers, said:” The government has not provided a ration kit or sanitiser Automatic drivers.
Only a few drivers receive compensation announced during the first and second wave.
Already, some people are on the road because of Covid’s fear so that the business is reduced Also Bear BrunBMTC will operate 10% important services in the city, t Idak including the detention zone, between 6am and 10 nights over the weekend.
However, Vayu Vayu Airport service AC will run as usual.
“Our daily passengers are around 25 lakh and income around Rs 3.1 Crore.
We expect income only Rs 5 lakh a day during the weekend,” said an BMTC official.
“Our daily driver is between 3.3-3.5 lakh compared to 5 lakh before Covid.
The curfew at night and on weekends will definitely have an impact on our passengers but we need to follow the government norms to curb a pandemic,” said A BMRCL official.
KSRTC officials said their daily passengers were around 23 lakh compared to 30 lakh in pre-covid.
“We now operate 7,500 buses compared to 8,250 earlier.
The government has allowed the bus to operate at night and weekends.
But weekend wednesday will affect the lack of business activities.
We expect the loss around Rs 15 Crore a week.”