The provincial bureaucracy is putting hurdles in letting 33 repaired CNG buses ply on board in a situation when citizens needed them most in overly-congested traffic system on roads.
Sindh Chief Secretary Sajjad Salim Hotiyana said on July 18 that 33 CNG buses would soon be on roads which were parked at the bus depot in Surjani Town. Hotiyana also directed the officers to take immediate measures to bring all repaired buses on roads to provide convenience to citizens.
Karachi Administrator Rauf Akhter Farooqui had also nodded positively on July 28 and said that the buses would be on roads in around a week or two maximum.
However, the buses were still waiting for getting green light from the provincial government, who had given a large amount of money for the maintenance of the buses, said sources. The leadership of the main ruling party wanted the buses to be inaugurated by their main leader, they said.
Project Director CNG buses Ghulam Rasool was steadfast not to disclose anything about the buses as to what kind of process they were going for. However, he said that buses were completely ready for plying on roads for the past two months.
The buses had ceased functioning in 2008-09 at the end of the tenure of former mayor of Karachi Mustafa Kamal, who had started the buses, due to lack of funds.
Now the buses are to ply a route from Quaidabad to Tower in first phase. The buses would stand at a depot in Quaidabad at night. Spokesman of Karachi Metropolitan Corporation Bashir Ahmed Sadozai suggested that people ought to use public transport rather than private buses, which was a cause of mass traffic jams. The revamping of CNG buses was a great move by the Sindh government catering to the need of citizens, he said.
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