Single Bus Scheme will be Supported: LTC

LAHORE, Sept 29: The Lahore Transport Company (LTC) has decided to recruit 100 transport enforcement inspectors (TEIs) to strengthen the regulative mechanism system for the public service transport at the provincial capital. In a meeting of the LTC’s board of directors, headed by chairman Tasneem Ahmad Noorani, on Wednesday, officials finalised the criteria to recruit TEIs on urban routes. “Candidates holding graduation degree will have to go through written and physical fitness tests. After recruitment, the TEIs are required to complete compulsory training at the police training school,” spokesman for LTC Amjad Husain told Dawn. He said the BoD had approved to introduce a “Single Bus Scheme”, allowing every person having some transport-related experience to start the transport business by purchasing a new bus to get it run on city routes under LTC rules and regulations. He said the purpose to introduce this scheme was to encourage small investors seeking initiation of transport business in a prestigious manner. “The government will award 20 per cent subsidy to all applicants desiring to purchase buses for joining the LTC under this scheme,” he added. Mr Husain said any person seeking entrance in the business under this scheme would have to sign a memorandum of understanding with the LTC. “The BoD has also decided to instruct all private bus operators to get fitness certificates of their buses under the Motor Vehicle Ordinance, he