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Resentment against hike in bus fare mounting in Bhopal

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NK SINGH Though a Govt. directive has frustrated the earlier efforts of the MPSRTC to increase the city bus fares by as much as 300 per cent, the public resent even the 25 per cent hike. It is "totally unjust, uncalled for and arbitrary", this is the consensus that has emerged from an opinion conducted by "Commoner" among a cross-section of politicians, public men, trade union leaders, and last but not least, the common bus travelling public. However, a section of the people held, that an average passenger would not grudge a slight pinche in his pocket provided the MPSRTC toned up its services. But far from being satisfactory, the MPSRTC-run city bus service in the capital is an endless tale of woe. Hours of long waiting, over-crowding people clinging to window panes frequent breakdowns, age-old fleet of buses, unimaginative routes and the attitude of passengers one can be patient only when he is sure to get into the next bus are some of the ills plaguing the city b...
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Papul Jayakar to Probe Bharat Bhawan working

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                                       NK SINGH

The Bharat Bhawan Trust has requested Mrs Papul Jayakar, the government of led nominee on the trust, to inquire into the allegations against the functioning of Bharat Bhawan, the multi-arts complex at Bhopal, and the trustee secretary, Mr Ashok Vajpeyi, a senior IAS officer.

Disclosing this here on Thursday, the trust's chairman, Mr Arjun Singh, AIC- CIT) vice-president, told newsmen that Mrs Jayakar would conduct the in-house inquiry into the allegations level.

Led in the wake of the Karanth affair, B. V. Karanth, one of the Bharat Bhawan trusters and director of its repertory, was arrested last month by the Bhopal police on the charge of trying to burn to death an actress of his drama troupe.

Mr Arjun Singh, who came here on Thursday to attend an organisational meeting, also visited the lake-side bouse of arts and addressed a gathering of Bharat Bhawan artists and employers. He reportedly assured them of all possible help. 

Mr Singh wanted to meet Karanth, but due to a shortage of time, he could not visit the jail before flying back to Delhi in the afternoon. " I shall meet him, maybe, during my next visit," he told ENS.

Meanwhile, Mr. Ashok Vajpeyi is understood to have received an offer from the Government of India for the post of director general of the Festival of India. The Madhya Pradesh Government is believed to have received the in-saves message from Mrs Papul Jayakar asking them to spare Me, Vajpeyi, for the job. He is at present the cultural secretary of the state Government. 

Mr Singh told newsmen that artists at Bharat Bhawan complained to him about the campaign of "character assassination launched against them in the wake of the Karanth affair. He hoped that the Bhopal citizens would not try to disrupt the activities of Bharat Bhawan, particularly Rangmandal the repertory: Some cultural organisations of the town have threatened to picket Bharat Bhawan to stop the Rangmandal performance.

Indian Express

June 5, 1986





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