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GUJRANWALA, Nov 16: Commuters in the district have lodged their protest against the transport authorities for their alleged failure to keep a check on fare of the public transport vehicles, including franchize buses.
They complained about overcharging by the public transporters during Eid holidays and not allowing the wagons to ply on the GT Road.
Talking to this correspondent on Tuesday, scores of people told this correspondent that they had also been facing a great deal of inconvenience due to shortage of franchized buses on local routes from a day before Eid and they had to reach their destinations by overloaded trucks, tractor-trolleys and motorcycle-rickshaw. The district administration and regional transport authority secretary got impounded dozens of wagons to benefit the franchized buses.
On the other hand, the Transport Society Gujranwala public transport vehicle owners accused the district administration and the RTA secretary of supporting the franchized bus service.
STUDENTS' CONCERN: Local BA students have expressed their resentment against the Punjab University administration for not establishing its sub-office in Gujranwala to facilitate them to get admission forms and other documents of examination.
They demanded that all branches of Habib Bank should be allowed to get their admission fee.
Some students complained here on Tuesday that a number of them, including girls, had to go to Lahore to get admission forms from the Punjab University and there was only one branch of Habib Bank here to deposit the admission fee. They said police baton-charged them outside the bank when they protested delay in deposit of their admission fee on the last day of admission forms.
The students demanded that a sub-office of the university be set up in the city and all local bank branches allowed to deposit admission fee.
PRICE-HIKE: Butchers, fruit and vegetable sellers were reportedly found overcharging on Eid days without any fear of the raids by the district administration.
Some citizens told Dawn here on Tuesday that butchers sold mutton at Rs220 per kg and beef at Rs110 instead of the government's fixed price of Rs160 and Rs80 respectively.
Similarly, fruit and vegetable sellers charged exorbitant rates from customers. They were of the view that the district administration had fined them before Eid during checking of prices and now they had to recover the loss by getting high prices from customers.
Meanwhile, citizens have demanded that hoarders and profiteers must be taken to task by continuing raids.
