The BRS leaders expressed their anger at the RTA officials for stopping the vehicles. The officials told the BRS leaders that they were following the orders given by the higher officials, who ordered not to allow school buses for the party meeting
Anil Goud, who staged the protest by climbing on top of his lorry, threatened to touch the live electric wires passing over the spot. He alleged that RTA officials were collecting Rs.8000 as bribe from each lorry and registering cases if the bribe was not paid by the owners.
Officials of the Regional Transport Authority have come under severe scanner for extracting Rs 600 to Rs 1,000 from the drivers of six-wheelers and 10-wheelers even as they possess all documents.
A truck load of turmeric was heading towards Guntur from Nizamabad district headquarters and as it reached Indalwai toll plaza, a car which was following it intercepted and persons wearing RTA official's uniform caught hold of the driver and drugged him.
The fitness certificates issued by the RTAs concerned will be valid for one year. Not obtaining a fitness certificate compromised the safety of students.
The RTA officials recruited some private personnel unofficially to collect money from each passing vehicle and Rs 35, 000 unauthorised cash was found during the raids.
Amaravati: The Andhra Pradesh government on Thursday suspended two employees of Road Transport Authority (RTA) for an incident in which a family was left stranded on road after the car in which they were travelling was taken away for the chief minister’s convoy. Within hours after Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy expressed anguish […]
According to RTA officials, raids are being conducted on private buses for the last three days in different parts of the city including at LB Nagar, Shamshabad and Suchitra
