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The Shiv Sena (UBT) alleged that the authorities authorities was extracting wealth from the communal man's pockets to fulfill its committedness of backing the Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana. (PTI Photo)
Protesting the Maharashtra State Road Transportation Corporation’s (MSRTC) announcement past week to hike summons fares by 14,95 per cent, Shiv Sena (UBT) workers staged a rasta roko objection connected Tuesday astatine the Swargate autobus depot. The enactment alleged that the authorities authorities was extracting wealth from the communal man’s pockets to fulfill its committedness of backing the Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana.
Last week, the MSRTC announced the hike for each types of authorities transport buses effectual January 25.
Gajanan Tharkude, Shiv Sena (UBT) metropolis president, claimed that the state’s mediocre fiscal information has created a backing shortage, making it hard to present connected its committedness to supply fiscal enactment nether the Ladki Bahin Yojana.
“The authorities didn’t travel up with this determination earlier revising the scheme’s payments to girls successful the state,” helium said.
Pramod Nehul, an authoritative from MSRTC’s Pune Division, stated successful a caller interrogation with The Indian Express that the hike was portion of a periodic process, with the past hike of 18 percent having been implemented successful 2021.
Countering this explanation, Tharkude questioned wherefore the fares were accrued contempt the MSRTC precocious announcing
it had turned a profit. “If MSRTC recorded a nett of Rs 16.86 crore successful August past year, what is the request to load passengers now, particularly aft the announcement to summation the Ladki Bahin scheme’s payout from Rs 1500 to Rs 2100?” helium asked.
He besides criticised the authorities of nationalist proscription saying, “Firstly, communal radical are not benefitting from authorities transport arsenic the information of buses is deplorable. Secondly, the authorities proscription curate himself was unaware of the determination to hike fares, which was made by the MSRTC committee. Why wasn’t this hike implemented earlier erstwhile the Ladki Bahin Yojana didn’t exist?”
Tharkude further alleged that the hike was symbolic of the government’s inability to fulfill its committedness of paying Rs 2,100 to the beneficiaries of the scheme.
Shubham Tigga hails from Chhattisgarh and studied journalism astatine the Asian College of Journalism. He antecedently reported successful Chhattisgarh connected Indigenous issues and is profoundly funny successful covering socio-political, quality rights, and biology issues successful mainland and NE India. Presently based successful Pune, helium reports connected civilian aviation, different transport sectors, municipality mobility, the gig economy, commercialized matters, and workers' unions. You tin scope retired to him connected LinkedIn ... Read More
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