The 90 bed driver dormitory could not be operational even for a year. photo awakening
Jagran correspondent, Patna City. The 90-bed driver's dormitory built for bus drivers and attendants in the Interstate Bairia Bus Stand complex located on Patna-Masauri Road under Ramakrishna Nagar police station has not been operationalized even after a year. The building is now beginning to suffer from disuse.
Dirt is spread everywhere. Due to it not being used even in the extreme cold, drivers, stewardesses and passengers are forced to spend the night on steel chairs installed in the open at the passenger waiting area. The shelter built for 44 people by the Azimabad Zone of the Municipal Corporation from a German hangar in the premises remains full of people.
There was a provision to pay Rs 50 for 12 hours stay and Rs 100 for 24 hours stay in the driver's dormitory building. There was a plan to provide all the necessary facilities including kitchen here. The agency for its operation has also been decided. Due to departmental negligence, it is not being implemented till now.
Drivers Sohan Rai, Umesh Singh and others, who slept on steel chairs at the ground floor waiting area wrapped in blankets on the cold night, said that there is no alternative arrangement to spend the night safely. The German hangar of the corporation is filled with people. Had the driver dormitory been operational, there would have been relief from the cold. Sleeping in the open worsens your health.
Many other drivers and clerks told that bonfires are lit near night shelters by the Municipal Corporation. At many places in the complex, drivers themselves arrange for wood and burn it for themselves and their passengers to escape the cold. An attempt was made to contact the officer to discuss this matter but the conversation could not take place.
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