On Wednesday afternoon, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann will flag off Volvo buses from ISBT Jalandhar to the Indira Gandhi International Airport in the national capital.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal along with his Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann will flag off luxurious Volvo buses to Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport in Delhi from Inter-State Bus Terminus (ISBT) Jalandhar on Wednesday. Kejriwal will flag off buses from Jalandhar.
The flag-off ceremony will take place at the Shaheed Bhagat Singh Interstate Bus Terminal in Jalandhar.
The Delhi CM along with the Delhi Transport Minister Ka and officials will land in a chartered plane at the Adampur airport while CM Bhagwant Mann will arrive in a chopper with his team. The tariff of these government-run Volvo bus services will be less than half and the facilities will be more than private operators, Punjab CM said.
On Tuesday, senior officials of Jalandhar police visited the location and took stock of the security arrangements. ADCP Vatsala Shukla said that we are not disclosing the number of employees but security has been beefed up.
Gursharan Singh Sandhu, Jalandhar Commissioner of Police, said, “Police officials have been deployed for the security of the Chief Minister but the details cannot be put out in the public domain. Tight security arrangements have been made at the bus stand.”
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AAP chief spokesperson Malvinder Singh Kang was quoted by PTI as saying that the transport mafia will also be a thing of the past as party’s national convener Arvind Kejriwal accompanied by CM Mann will flag off Volvo buses on June 15. The AAP government has also decided to modernise and upgrade the transportation services in the state-run buses, said Kang.
Mann had said that for decades only private transporters had run their buses on this route and “looted the people by charging according to their own whims and fancies.”
The chief minister said that a number of NRIs who came to Punjab from abroad had always complained to him that why only private players have the right to ply buses on this route and why not government buses are running on them. He said that these people monopolised the trade and exploited the people.
