Auto drivers demand housing and other facilities in state budget

The Samyukta Karnataka Auto Drivers and Owners Welfare Association has urged Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to supply them housing, yearly fiscal assistance and different facilities successful the coming authorities budget.

The representatives of the Association, who acceptable retired connected Thursday connected a padayatra from Kote Anjaneya Swamy Temple successful beforehand of Mysuru Palace to Bengaluru, are readying to taxable a memorandum containing a database of their pre-Budget demands to Mr. Siddaramaiah successful Bengaluru.

The Association has urged Mr. Siddaramaiah to modulate the fig of autorickshaws successful the City by temporarily halting the process of issuing caller permits.

“Due to the expanding fig of vehicles successful Mysuru city, postulation congestion and deficiency of due parking arrangements, the nationalist has been inconvenienced. The increasing fig of autorickshaws, with caller ones being added daily, is worsening the situation. Therefore, we petition a impermanent halt connected issuing caller autorickshaw permits”, the memorandum said.

Housing

The Association said the autorickshaw drivers are uncovering it highly hard to wage location rents ranging from ₹6,000 to ₹8,000 per month. 

“Hence, nether a radical lodging scheme, we petition that houses beryllium allotted escaped of outgo for 20 years. The beneficiaries should not sell, lease, oregon rent these houses during this period, aft which the houses whitethorn beryllium returned to the government. We petition specified a lodging strategy for car drivers”, the Association said.

Referring to the yearly fiscal assistance of ₹15,000 reportedly fixed to autorickshaw drivers successful neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, the Association urged Mr. Siddaramaiah to instrumentality specified a payment strategy adjacent successful Karnataka.

The Association has sought compassionate enactment to the babelike household members of the car drivers erstwhile they go incapacitated owed to illness.

Unorganised drivers’ payment authority

The Association has urged the Chief Minister to found a dedicated authorization for the payment and economical improvement of unorganised drivers and others progressive successful allied work.

Referring to the directions issued by the Department of Legal Metrology to regenerate the existing car meters with caller ones calibrated to the revised fares of minimum ₹36 and ₹18 per km, the Association said the caller metre costs astir ₹2,500, which is an economical load connected the car drivers.

Hence, the Association urged the Government to supply these meters escaped of cost.

The Association has besides complained astir the nonaccomplishment of the Transport Department to contented Fitness Certificates (FC) for the past 3 to 4 months successful Mysuru.