Defying Covid SOP : HRTC management encouraging crowding

Himachal Pradesh Road Transport Corporation onced considered as one of efficient Public passenger transport services , defying the Covid restrictions by negligently encouraging overloading and crowding in some selected routes.
A daily Shimla-Daunti (down) and  HRTC service on Tuesday and Wednesday (up) failed to comply with Covid norms and SOPs and general passenger service as it deployed mini service inplace of HRTC heavy duty service on this route.
The staff members of HRTC informed us that since regular bus plying in this route is out of order forcing the minibus as adhoc arrangement but they could not reply to query about overloading, crowding and standing passengers in the School and office hours.
Gopal daily commuters in the service told that students and employees who travel daily basis would have to take another service which is one hour advance if they have to travel tomorrow.
Since no one is aware about the deployment of minibus in place of normal service it would create choas and forcing must of us to travel in standing braving Covid pandemic, he said.
Sutirth a student who take this service said that HRTC management was deploying warn out and under capacity vehicle creating trubble to most of fellow students and employees.
The service run on Airport road often remained breakdown, he said. HRTC management which could not ply about two hundred blue and new buses are risking the safety and convenience of passanger.
Authority could not bother to breach the Covid norms as passenger was being lifted beyond the capacity by similar negligence, they laments.
State Transport are allowing overloading and crowding in the private buses either as no restriction is being followed currently.
It is after one and half years that students are going to school, College and University but they are being exposed to risk by racklessly deploying undercapicity service.
If people are facing situation like this in urban and semi-urban areas one could think of the ground reality in the village and remote areas however HRTC service catter most of rural route, Mr Surinder Verma who is a cable operators added.