Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 8: All J&K Motor Transport Companies Representatives Association has voiced its grave concern over digitization of RTO Office without proper infrastructure and trained staff to handle the work.
A meeting of the Association was held today under the chairmanship of its president S Gajan Singh, who drew attention towards the issue and the problems being faced by the Transporters.
” In absence of proper infrastructure and trained staff in the RTO Office, the digitization has multiplied sufferings of the transporters,” he said and added that unless and until all the records in the RTO office are computerized, the system will not improve and the Transport Department must provide requisite infrastructure as well as trained staff to handle the rush.
Substantiating his point, Gajan Singh said that in district Jammu, 6, 50,000 vehicles are registered in RTO office Jammu while as only 1, 50,000 vehicles are registered with ARTOs of different district of J&K State. “Till all the records in RTO Office are computerized, the authorities should continue the old system so that the transporters may not have to suffer,” he said.
Farman Ali, highlighted the grievance of Transport companies’ representatives who are being deprived of their work as authorized agents in the RTO office. “It is shocking that the Government intends to authorize few agencies in granting registration to new vehicles who have been charging more fee,” he said and urged the Government to restrict any such move.
Later, representatives from different transport association, including R S Pura, Kathua, auto Union, Matador Union and Bus, Truck unions, also called on RTO Jammu and submitted him a memorandum of demands. They also threatened to adopt agitational path if their demands are not conceded.
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