Kolkata, August 01: The Kolkata police is gearing up to implement a ban imposed by the Calcutta High Court on over 15-year-old commercial and transport vehicles from Saturday in the metropolis.
Bengal Bus Syndicate president Swarnakamal Saha said his association, which controls over 60 percent of private buses in the city, would not run 15-year-old buses as per the court order.
“Only those buses which are less than this age would be plying from Saturday,” he said.
Earlier, some of the leaders of the bus owner associations had taken a defiant stand and said that buses less than 15-year-old would also not ply if older buses are seized from today.
Trouble is apprehended from autorickshaw operators and a section of taxi owners who might try to disrupt normal life in the city in protest against the ban, a transport official said.
–Agencies