THE third tender of the Bhopal City Link Limited (BCLL) will be opening on Thursday. With the tender opening, the suspense maintained on the continuation of 139 buses will be revealed. Public Relations Officer (PRO) of BCLL Sanjay Soni said that the tender for the ownership of the buses will be opening on Thursday. As learnt by ‘The Hitavada’, if the new tender get bidders, then there will be a hope regarding the starting of the 139 buses that are halted in the city and if the BCLL doesn’t get any, then the situations will be back to zero. Significantly, earlier BCLL had planned to run buses on their own with 30 buses being run on their own but few time after denying all the possibilities of 30 buses to be started, the urban transport authority of the organisation, Bhopal City Link Limited (BCLL) had filed the tender again as it had received no bidders for the previous two tenders.

 

The said decision was halted citing lack of transparency in the process of running buses on own. Significantly, from few months, 139 buses out of 340 buses are not running in the city posing problems to the commuters. Also, on the sidelines of the tangled developments, are the bus drivers and conductors which are sitting unemployment from past two months. Some of them while seeking anonymity, expressed their plight with “The Hitavada’, “We have nothing to make a living and genuinely want employment as this has been high time. I have to pay my house rent along with other household expenses and in this situation, things have become extremely difficult.” Not only limited to that, the citizens of the city are also suffering due to the same due to the bus ‘crisis’ which has now nearly crossed three months.