{"id":29307,"date":"2020-07-04T23:37:11","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T18:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=29307"},"modified":"2020-07-04T23:37:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T18:07:11","slug":"transporters-taking-passengers-on-ride-charge-fare-at-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=29307","title":{"rendered":"Transporters taking passengers on ride, charge fare at will"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em><strong>Our men on job, norm violators facing law: RTO Kashmir<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Srinagar<\/strong>: The transporters who have resumed their work amid COVID-19 pandemic are taking the passengers for a ride in the Valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pertinently, the Jammu and Kashmir government raised the passenger fare in public transport by 30 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the local passengers from different parts of the Valley told the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the Sumo drivers who have resumed their work are charging exorbitant fare to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The passengers said that the public transporters have been giving different reasons for charging the exorbitant rates, adding that most of the time fare varies between Rs 20 to Rs 40.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe can\u2019t deny the fact that transporters have suffered huge losses. But, the public transporters should not compensate their losses by taking the common people on ride,\u201d Ali Muhammad, a local residents from Srinagar said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is worth to mention here that the transporters resumed their activities after almost eleven months here. The transporters have suffered huge losses due to the shutdown and subsequent lockdown since August 5, 2019 in Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The passengers here have appealed the concerned authorities to look into the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, Regional Transport Officer (RTO) Kashmir, Ikramullah Tak told KNO that the complainant (passenger) should at least forward the registration number of the particular transporter so that action will be initiated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur teams on the ground have been taking strict action against the norm violators while driving licenses of many drivers were also seized after they were found violating the norms,\u201d Tak said, adding that any person having a complaint should contact the office directly and action will be taken immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPeople can even WhatsApp us their complaints vis-\u00e0-vis exorbitant charges,\u201d he said\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our men on job, norm violators facing law: RTO Kashmir Srinagar: The transporters who have resumed their work amid COVID-19 pandemic are taking the passengers for a ride in the Valley. Pertinently, the Jammu and Kashmir government raised the passenger fare in public transport by 30 per cent. However, the local passengers from different parts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}