Round-the-clock PRTC bus service for Maiserkhana fair

Ravi Chandel

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, March 20

The PRTC is all set to provide round-the-clock services to the devotees for the Maiserkhana fair, which will be organised this Friday.

The fair is held twice a year during the Navratras. People from Punjab and adjoining states such as Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana and Delhi come to the fair and pay obeisance at the Goddess Durga Temple.

In view of a large number of devotees attending the fair, the PRTC has already made route plan of the buses for facilitating them.

Besides, the PRTC has also written a letter to Regional Transport Authority (RTA) Udaydeep Singh Sidhu, urging him not to issue any permit to private bus operators, especially for the Maiserkhana fair.

Pleading anonymity, a PRTC employee, said, “From Bathinda to Maiserkhana, 25 buses will provide round-the-clock services to the devotees. Besides, five buses each from Maur, Talwandi Sabo and Rampura Phul will be plying for devotees.”

He said if the RTA issued any permit to private bus operators then they would stage a protest against.

Surender Singh, general manager, PRTC, confirmed that they had done all ground work on the route plan of buses to facilitate the devotees of the Maiserkhana fair.

He added that as per the new guidelines, the RTA cannot issue new permits to any bus operator.

However, RTA Udaydeep Singh Sidhu said, “I have received a fresh letter from the government in which it has been clearly written that if any bus operator having legal permit approaches the RTA, the authority can provide them permits.”