Transport
Transport Department operates from the State Administrative Buildings, i.e. Writers’ Buildings. The Kolkata RTO office is known as Public Vehicles Department.
Bike-Taxi service to areas under New Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA), Nabadiganta Industrial Township Authority (NDITA) and the Sectors I to IV of Bidhannagar (Salt Lake) Township.
To establish information connectivity between the passenger(s) or hirer(s) and the driver(s) or service-provider(s) of any passenger or goods vehicle.
Transport Department has made substantial progress in the rolling out of e-Vahan along with integration of the same with e-payment of Motor Vehicle Taxes, etc. on the GRIPS platform.
A commercial vehicle registered in the State of West Bengal may be produced before any RA within the State for fitness checking and will be issued Certificate of Fitness by the said RA.
Regional Transport Authority, Burdwan shall issue permits for auto-rickshaws within the municipal areas of Asansol Sub-Division in terms of West Bengal Motor Vehicles Act, 1988.
Task Force is constituted to deal with various aspects relating to the identification of the specific locations where Taxi Stands within the jurisdiction of Kolkata Municipal Corporation is to be earmarked.
If there exists any Notification in the State or District level fixing ceiling on the number of stage carriages on any route in the State except in the city routes in towns with a population of not less than five lakhs, then the aforesaid fixation on the fleet strength of such routes henceforth will stand cancelled and superseded by this Notification.
Motor cycles can be registered as contract carriages in West Bengal and permits issued by RTA, provided the operator obtains a licence in terms the Rent A Motor Cycle Scheme, 1997.
To ensure road safety especially for the school children an one-time scheme for regularisation of Pool Cars carrying School Children to Contract Carriages is formulated.
District Magistrate, Darjeeling will be the Chairman of the Committee to review and re-assess the demand of all kinds of passenger transport services operating within and to and from the City of Siliguri.