CHANDIGARH: Come June 15, the Punjab government will start plying Volvo buses to New Delhi airport from various parts of the state. Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann made this announcement on Friday afternoon and said that the service will break the monopoly of private players, who he accused of exploiting people.
Mann said the government would charge less than half of the private transporters. The chief minister rued that for decades, only private buses were plying on this route and looted the people by charging as per their own whims and fancies. Mann said that a number of NRIs who came to Punjab from abroad complained to him about only private players plying buses on this route and questioned why government buses were not running on the same route. He said that the booking of these buses can be easily done from the websites of Punjab Roadways and PUNBUS.
