AGARTALA, June 22 (TIWN): Yet on another daring attempt a passenger was brutally insulted and harassed by unruly auto driver backed by CITU in a broad day light over charging extra fair from the passenger plying from Battala to G. B route via Radhanagar.

It is alleged that the pullers carry passengers from Battala to Radhanagar for Rs. 10 and once again carry people from Radhanagar to G. B for Rs 10 again even though the permit is from Battala to GB for Rs. 12 only.

The drivers cheat the commoners and if anyone protest one has to face serious harassment from the auto drivers.

It is worthy to mention here; though, a section of unruly auto drivers backed by CITU is still engaged in picking the pocket of regular passengers by charging excrescent fare, the concerned authority remained mum over the issue.

Overloading of passengers, charging extra fares, misbehaving with the commuters, is all that happening in and around the state.

Several auto drivers carry four to six passengers on sharing system to earn more money. However, it is against the law and also hazardous but no action.

Even, the recently fixed point-to-point auto-rickshaw fare chart has brought no change to the unruly auto drivers across the capital city with the drivers charging high fares.

although the State government has finally implemented the order of High Court of Tripura to install point – to- point fares along auto permit to carry the verified fare chart for all the routes it is seen that none of the auto drivers has shown any eagerness to follow this rule rather they are charging the hiked fare price from the passengers.

As per the direction all the drivers to paste the point to point fare rate chart in their auto but hardly some counting drivers has pasted  the rate chart in their autos. Interestingly, those who have pasted the point-to-point rate chart it is just for the namesake and none of them has effectively implemented the fare of the rate chart and are continuously demanding hiked fare from the passengers.

Even if some passengers asked the auto drivers to keep the fare as per the point -to-point fare the drivers harasses the passengers and misbehaves with them.

After so many days of the direction of the HC none of the direction is followed by the CITU backed auto drivers in the Agartala city. It completely shows the negligent attitude of the traffic department and the state government.  Day after day the auto drivers are harassing the passengers with their misrule but no action is taken against them.