The Pioneer 29.09.2010
New Transport Nagar to start functioning from Jan 2011Staff Reporter | Bhopal
The entire transport business of the city would start functioning from newly developed Kokta based Rani Avantibai Transport Nagar from January, 2011. A decision to this effect was taken in the meeting of transporters presided over by district collector Nikunj Shrivastava on Tuesday.
The meeting decided that those transporters and garage owners, who have been allotted land plots in the Transport Nagar, should compulsorily deposit the entire price of the plots by October 30. A cess of 1 per cent would be slapped on those, who deposit the amount in November and the persons depositing the amount in December would suffer the cess of 2 per cent as penalty.
In the meeting it was informed that till now only 442 persons have been allotted the plots and out of these, 142 persons have deposited the amount. The persons yet to deposit the amount comprise 72 transporters and 70 garage owners. In a significant achievement, around 110 persons have deposited the amount for land plots in the last month itself.
It was informed in the meeting that projects for developing basic amenities at the Transport Nagar are underway and would be completed before the commencement of normal functioning of the transporters there.
The concerned officials informed that the first and second round process of land plot allotment has been completed and the process under the third phase is already underway at present. The participants of the meeting were informed that the remaining 264 land plots would be distributed on the basis of limited competition.
Commissioner of Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) Manish Singh and BMC additional commissioner Arvind Dubey, office bearers of transport association also attended the meeting. BMC commissioner on the occasion said the Municipal Corporation still holds some portion of unused land in the Transport Nagar and in future, new plots would be carved out and would be distributed to the transporters, who have missed the opportunity of applying for land plots in the initial rounds.
