PPP in Urban Bus
Transport is disaster
in Odisha
· Rs.
185 crores spent for
purchasing 185 buses for town bus
services in 2010 and 2014.
· The cost
of purchase per
bus is Rs. 1 crore.
· Dream Team
Sahara, a private body was given
responsibility for
management of bus.
· Within seven
years of
bus service, only Rs. 8.5 crore
revenue received by Govt.
from Town bus service against
investment of Rs. 185
crores.
· Within
seven years, all 180 buses are
defunct lying in deserted
locations of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack.
Only five buses are in
working condition.
Is it
the result of PPP ?
Dear friends
Few days
back, mass media carried news about defunct of number
of town buses lying in deserted places of
Bhubaneswar and Cuttack.
This news prompted
me to file RTI dated 5.7.19 to get
the information about Town Bus service managed
under BPTCL ( Bhubaneswar Puri
Transport Corporation Limited), no. of
buses purchased, Private operators managing
the bus route and plying of buses etc.
. It needs to be mentioned here that
the present “Mo Bus Yojana”
is managed by
CRUT ( Capital Region Urban Transport), another company
registered in 2018 under
the Companies Act by Govt. of Odisha. It is replica
or new Avatar of BPTCL.
BPTCL, a State Govt.-undertaking Company registered under
the companies Act in
2010 was the sole public transport
provider for Bhubaneswar & Puri city. It was primarily covering Bhubaneswar
city and was providing connectivity to other cities like Cuttack, Puri, Jatni
and Khurda. It was running all the bus operation in partnership with PPP partner Dream
Team Sahara (DTS), Bhubaneswar.
PPP ( Public-Private-Partnership)
is buzzword in circle of
state administration envisaged
to engage private players
for service delivery to the people. It prepares a long-term contract
between a private party and a government entity, for providing a public asset
or service, in which the private party bears significant risk and management
responsibility, and remuneration is linked to performance. Keeping PPP in view, It
is thought that Govt.
might have engaged
Dream Team Sahara , a private
body for effective management of town bus service in
Bhubaneswar and other cities .
The
reply of the PIO dated 30.7.19 is as follows.
1.
Details of Bus
purchased by BPTCL for urban transport services ( Town Bus ) as follows.
Sl. No
|
Particulars
|
Year 2010
( For
125 buses)
|
Year 2014
( For
60 buses)
|
1
|
Details of fund spent
for the purchase of bus
|
Rs. 17.00 crores
|
Rs. 18.29 crores
|
2
|
Name of the Company which supplied the buses
|
Tata Motors
Rs. 10.00 crores
|
Tata Motors
|
|
|
Swaraj Mazda
Rs. 7.00 Crores
|
|
2. Total
no. of type of buses purchased
used for town bus
service is as follows.
Sl. No.
|
Type of buses
|
Total No.
|
1
|
Swaraj Mazda
|
70
|
2
|
Tata Standard Buses
|
70
|
3
|
TATA A/C Standard Buses
|
12
|
4
|
TATA MIDI Buses
|
33
|
Total
|
|
185
|
3. Details
of revenue generated from the
Town bus service deposited
by Dream Team Sahara from 2010-11
to 2017-18
Year wise
|
2010-11
|
2011-12
|
2012-13
|
2013-14
|
2014-15
|
2015-16
|
2016-17
|
2017-18
|
Revenue generated from bus
service
|
23,191,594.00
|
1,34,12,041.00
|
27,29,023.00
|
32,80,821.00
|
1,59,01,777.00
|
1,68,83,902.00
|
66,49,610.00
|
45,12,960.00
|
Compensation paid to the
companies for management of bus
against the loss suffered
by them
|
NIL
|
NIL
|
NIL
|
NIL
|
NIL
|
NIL
|
NIL
|
NIL
|
Total amount of
revenue received within the period of 8 years
is Rs. 8, 65,61,723.00
4. What
is the present condition of the Bus
The PIO has
replied that all 180 no. of buses
are defunct and only
five buses having
no. OD-02-Q-4902, OD-02-Q-4904, OD-02-Q-9411, OD-02-Q-9413,
OD-02-Q-9414 are plying
on roads.
5.
The
PIO has not
provided copy of agreement
signed with Dream team
Sahara for management
of bus service. On 12.8.19.,
the first appeal has been filed
to the First Appellate Authority
for supply of the
information.
Pradip Pradhan
M-9937843482
Date – 13.8.19
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