Anbumani Ramadoss, the founder of BAMA, said that the Tamil Nadu government should allocate additional funds to the state transport corporations.
In a social media post published by him in this regard, a bus belonging to the State Transport Corporation, which left from Dindigul Bus Station to Theni city, failed to brake and rammed into a roadside sweet shop in the next few minutes.
Not only was the sweet shop completely damaged in the accident, but a woman in the shop was seriously injured and admitted to the hospital. I wish him a speedy recovery. If a government bus crashes into a shop within minutes of leaving the bus station without braking, you can tell how poorly maintained the bus is.
What would have happened if the bus traveling at low speed and hitting the shop had hit the crowd of people standing on the road at high speed? It’s heartbreaking to think about. Not only to travel in government buses, but the sight of them is causing fear.
The condition of government buses is becoming alarming day by day. Almost every day there is an event that goes by that there is not a day that government buses don’t break down and get stuck in the middle of an accident. Last week in Palani, Dindigul district, the wheel of a government bus came off on its own while traveling on the road.
A major accident and loss of life was avoided as the driver stopped the bus immediately. The government bus entered the sweet shop before the commotion subsided and caused fear among the people. Government buses were once well maintained. They were the traveling companions of the poor and the poor.
The reason why that situation has changed today is because of the inaction of the Tamil Nadu government and the transport department. More than 20,000 buses operated by the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation are unfit for operation. Even though the Tamil Nadu government has announced that new buses will be purchased to replace them, it remains an empty announcement.
It was of no use. While the Patali People’s Party has been pointing out that the government buses are frequently repaired, the Tamil Nadu Government Transport Corporation has announced that 17,459 repairs have been found in the government buses and that all the repairs in the buses have been repaired by May 6.
But yesterday’s accident in Dindigul is an example of the fact that not a single bus has been fully repaired. Tamil Nadu Government can allocate additional funds to the State Transport Corporations and rehabilitate them.
However, the Tamil Nadu government is engaging in negative activities like refusing to increase the concessionary fare for pensioners, refusing to buy new buses, and failing to repair old buses. Looking at these, is the government plotting to completely shut down the public transport companies and hand them over to the private sector? A doubt arises. It is the government’s duty to remove this.
Realizing this, government transport corporations should allocate additional funds and repair all the old buses. Steps should be taken to recruit adequate technical staff and procure spare parts. He mentioned that the government should take steps to replace all the buses that are past 6 years old in the government transport corporations and buy new buses to replace them.
