GUWAHATI, May 17 - Acting tough against the taxi syndicate which has made life miserable for common passengers at the Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi International (LGBI) Airport here, the Kamrup Metro district administration today constituted a committee of high officials to check the activities of the syndicate and submit its report within 15 days.
A order to this effect was issued by Dr M Angamuthu, District Magistrate of Kamrup Metro and Chairman of the Regional Transport Authority (RTA).
�A district-level committee is hereby constituted to check the taxi syndicate flourishing at the Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport, Guwahati. The committee is to make a detailed study of the issue and submit its report within 15 days,� said the order.
MN Saikia, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Kamrup Metro will be the chairman of the committee and Sharmistha Bora, Assistant Commissioner of Kamrup Metro, will be its convener.
The committee will have the Managing Director of the Assam Tourism Development Corporation (ATDC), the Director of Airports Authority of India, LGBI, the DCP of Guwahati West District, DCP (Traffic) Panbazar, Circle Officer of Azara Revenue Circle, one representative each from the CISF, DTO (R&L) of Kamrup Metro, DTO (Enforcement) of Kamrup Metro, and the DTO and the Secretary of RTA of Kamrup Metro as its other members.
�It has come to my notice that there is an unauthorised taxi organisation which is running a syndicate in and around the LGBI Airport, Guwahati, which has caused immense difficulties to the travelling passengers. The syndicate is being run by the Guwahati Airport Taxi Association, which is not an authorised association under the AAI,� said Dr Angamuthu.
He added, �This type of taxi syndicate harasses the passengers, causing safety concern and hampering the smooth running of the airport. In order to check this unauthorised syndicate and also to help in the hassle-free running of the airport, we have constituted a committee comprising officials from the district administration, police, AAI, CISF and the transport department to check the taxi syndicate flourishing in the airport and direct the committee to submit a report within 15 days.�
