Touts functioning at the Regional Transport Offices (RTO) in the State have been charging varied amount depending on nature of work.
People coming from poorer sections of society cannot afford to pay higher sums of money to these touts for their official work. Hence their work gets delayed to a great extent.
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During the tenure of Sudin Dhavalikar as the Transport Minister, he had assured on two different occasions that he would remove the touts from these offices in order to avoid harassment meted out to the public at large.
However, Dhavalikar failed to fulfil his promises on this matter during his tenure. Presently, at these offices, even retired employees of the RTO Department have been functioning as touts. With a cordial relation of the touts with the higher officials at this department, they function with great ease.
Of course, the people from weaker sections of society need to receive a permanent relief during their visit to these offices. Hence, I appeal to the acting Transport Minister Mauvin Godinho to view this particular matter quite seriously and issue necessary circular to higher officials at the RTO offices in the State thereby prohibiting functioning of touts at these offices.
Public at large need to secure efficient service at the existing office counters itself without any discrimination. Let us hope that the minister would initiate favourable action accordingly.
