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The Consortium of Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation Workers Unions has alleged unorganised cognition of mini-bus services from Old Bus Stand and New Bus Stand successful Thanjavur.
The occupation has arisen owed to the New Comprehensive Mini Bus scheme, allowing the commencement oregon termination of mini-bus operations astatine autobus stands/stops, launched by the erstwhile DMK authorities successful June 2025, it said.
As the caller strategy envisaged cognition of mini-bus services for a maximum region of 25 km arsenic against 20 km successful the aged strategy launched successful 1997, astir of the caller permits had the autobus stands arsenic their originating/destination points. Under the aged scheme, a bulk of mini-bus services were not allowed to beryllium operated from oregon to the autobus terminus/stands, sources said.
Until the launching of the caller strategy past year, determination were lone 10 to 12 mini-bus services operated from the Old and New Bus Stand. As the fig of specified services were minimum, determination was not overmuch trouble successful regulating the mini-bus services, and astir of them were operated during non-peak hours oregon aboriginal morning/night.
But erstwhile the caller strategy came into force, the fig of mini-buses originating/terminating astatine the autobus terminus accrued to 73, affecting the time-schedule of the Corporation municipality services.
The mini autobus crew/owners, sources claimed, refused to heed to the directions of the Corporation time-keepers to run their services without affecting the time-schedule of the TNSTC municipality autobus services. Hence, the day-to-day postulation of the TNSTC municipality autobus services was affected, they added.
Hence, the Consortium has submitted a memorandum to Collector R. Revathi, who is besides the Regional Transport Authority, seeking her involution to find an amicable solution to the issue.
