As the inter-state or long route buses of UP Transport too are terminating at the border rather than at the ISBTs, the passengers are carrying their luggage on their head while entering the Delhi border. After walking a fair distance with the luggage, the passengers then board a city route bus for their destination.
“I feel sorry to see the plight of the people. But, UP has made it an ego issue and is not budging an inch for a bus agreement between the two states,” said Yusuf. The Transport Minister said UP has so far impounded 122 DTC buses and the government was filing application in the courts to get them released. The 11 buses of UP Transport Corporation, seized by Delhi, have already been released.
Yusuf said: “How can Delhi permit plying of UP buses on the city routes?” The minister said in such an eventuality, there would be no control on these buses and there will be complete chaos on the roads. “If we allow UP, Haryana, Rajasthan and Punjab would start plying their buses on city routes,” he added.
Meanwhile, former Union Minister Vijay Goel flashed an agreement signed between Delhi and UP in August 2004 and said it undermined the interests of Delhi. “The agreement said DTC buses would run 90,000 kms in UP while UP buses would run 30,000 kms in Delhi,” he said. Goel said, UP was running buses in the city routes as per this agreement. “The two state governments are fighting like the Indian and Pakistan governments who expel each other’s diplomats,” said Goel.
As the governments fight, the passengers have been left in the lurch. “It took three hours for me to reach Nehru Place from Vasundhara in Ghaziabad, a journey which normally takes a little over an hour,” said Mukesh Kumar, a daily commuter. “I regret relocating to UP,” he added.
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