Wednesday, 18 August 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
Over 23,000 applicants working in public transportation have applied to the Uttarakhand transport department to be the beneficiaries for the monetary aid provided by the State government within one week. On August 11, the transport department invited the applications from the drivers, conductors and cleaners working in the public transportation to provide financial help whose livelihood was affected due to Covid curfew this year except for the buses of Uttarakhand Transport Corporation (UTC).
The department announced last week that a total of Rs 12388.20 lakh will be spent to provide the monthly monetary aid of Rs 2,000 each to all the eligible beneficiaries from the chief minister relief fund for the next six months. The department will transfer this money to the bank accounts of the beneficiaries through regional transport officers and district magistrates. In the last seven days, the department has received over 23,000 applications from various drivers and conductors of Uttarakhand but only 8,023 applications have been approved so far.
The State deputy transport commissioner Sanat Kumar Singh informed that out of over 23,000 applications, the department has approved 8,023 applications, rejected 442 applications, 383 applications are put on hold while 14,157 applications are still pending for approval. On the question that the web portal of the department http://uk.gov.in is only showing registration options for drivers and conductors and not for the cleaners, Singh said that the department is developing a new portal in which there will be a registration option for the cleaners too. “As per our estimation, the number of cleaners is hardly about 3,000 in the State. With the launch of the new web portal, the registration of the cleaners will start too,” stated Singh. He also disclosed that the number of eligible beneficiaries in the State will certainly go over 50,000 beneficiaries.
