- 45 people saved their lives
Nagpur. On Thursday morning, there was panic among people between Krida Chowk to Medical Chowk, when a packed Aapli bus caught fire in the middle of the road. Due to the driver’s understanding, even after the bus was full, more than 45 passengers were somehow unloaded before the bus completely burst into flames. A large part of the bus was gutted in the fire before the fire brigade reached the spot.
It is noteworthy that the Municipal Corporation has appointed three operators to operate the buses. Apart from this, Demts Company was appointed separately for the operation of buses. It is the responsibility of this company to send the buses coming out of the depot for transportation only after checking them thoroughly. Apart from this, it is the responsibility of the operators to maintain the buses. Due to the careless functioning of the operators and dimts company, incidents of bus plying are happening continuously for the last few days. While the Transport Department of Municipal Corporation Kumbhakarni is in sleep. Sources gave information about such incidents happening due to zero maintenance.
Caution averted due to driver’s caution
It is said that your bus number MH-31/FC-0413 had left Titur for Birdi at 9 am. As it was early morning, the bus was packed with staff going to offices, students reaching schools and colleges and others. More than 45 passengers were in the bus. As the bus moved from Ishwar Deshmukh College of Physical Education (Krida Chowk) to Medical, smoke started coming out of the engine. Seeing the smoke coming out of the engine, a passenger informed the driver Diwakar Kakade about it. The Kakade immediately suspected something wrong. While putting the bus aside, the passengers were advised to get out immediately. Just now the passengers were getting down from the bus that the bus had caught fire. But all the passengers got off the bus before the flames rose. Somehow the accident was averted due to the alertness of the driver.
Crores of rupees are being spent on the company
According to sources, every year the corporation has to bear the loss of crores due to the operation of your bus. The Transport Department is somehow running the city bus system by taking more than 108 crore funds from the Municipal Corporation.
To operate the buses where the operator was appointed. At the same time, Dimts company was appointed for maintenance and implementation of bus routes etc. For this, crores of rupees are given every year to the Dimts company.
According to the methodology, it is necessary to have the company’s employees deployed at the bus depot and it is necessary to check it thoroughly before leaving the bus. Only after the bus is found completely fit in the investigation, it is certain to be taken out for transportation.
Even after this, the burning of the bus on the roads is no less than a surprise. Even before this, there was an incident of bus burning in Hingna in the same way. Even after the incident of burning of the bus standing in the depot itself, it was not investigated. Recently, there was an incident of bus burning in front of the police headquarters in the morning itself.