Haryana cabinet approves scheme for hiring buses

Haryana Cabinet today approved the scheme for hiring of buses on kilometre basis by State Transport department so as to provide an efficient and economical bus transport service to the passengers in the state.
The cabinet met under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and approved the scheme for hiring buses by the state transport department.
Under the scheme, buses registered in Haryana will be taken on hire. State Transport Department will hire buses on per kilometre basis.
Maximum five buses can be hired from any person, firm, company, registered society or any other legal unit, an official spokesman said.

The process of online e-tendering will be adopted for hiring buses so as to ensure complete transparency.
The payment of bus hiring will be made for assured operation of bus per month/per day after deducting penalties, if any.

For Standard (Non AC buses), assured operation of 8400 km per month and 300 km per day will be given for buses having age upto four years, he said.
In case of buses for than four years old, payment for assured operation will be given for 7000 km per month and 250 km per day.
In case of Mini (Non AC) buses, assured operation payment will be made for 6440 km per month and 230 km per day for buses upto four years age.

Similarly, for mini buses more than four year old but less than five years, assured operation payment will be made for 6020 km per month and 215 km per day, he said.
Further, the hiring rates shall consist of two components that is diesel and repair and maintenance charges, wages/salary of the driver, insurance charges and the taxes/ levy/ fees/ charges, payable under relevant provisions of the Acts/ Rules but excluding the permit fee, bus stand fee, toll/ entry fee, passenger tax/Special Road Tax, he said.
The 65 per cent weight of hiring rate per km will be attributed to the cost of diesel and the remaining 35 per cent of hiring rates would be assumed to be on account of the expenses other than diesel.

The owner will be required to provide bio-data of drivers to the general manager of the concerned depot, he said.
The State Transport department will have right to collect fare for passengers and goods carried by the bus and owner of the bus shall have no right over this income or fare charged from the passengers travelling in the bus.