Bus station area in Sirsa is congested; final land for new depot to be acquired

The municipal bus stand’s severe traffic congestion has grown to be a serious problem. The Hisar road is always congested throughout the day due to the more than 500 buses that arrive and leave from the bus terminal. Although the idea to move the bus station to a location outside of the city has long been discussed, the property needed for the project has not yet been decided upon.

A bus station building is safe for at least 42 years, according to rules. Following that, an evaluation is conducted to ascertain the building’s state and appropriateness for the surrounding environment. After this evaluation, the structure may be repaired and maintained for the next ten years.

In 1987, the bus station in Sirsa was finished and officially opened by Chaudhary Devi Lal, the Chief Minister at the time. As of right now, the bus stand’s structure is in fine shape.

Since the bus stop is located in the city on a major thoroughfare, traffic jams are a common occurrence. A request for the use of 20 acres of land for the new bus station in Sirsa was forwarded to higher authorities by the General Manager (GM) of Sirsa Roadways, Navneet Singh.

On September 1, 2022, the Deputy Commissioner established a seven-person committee to examine the land, with the SDM serving as its head. The committee examined two 20-acre plots of land on Sirsa’s Hisar road on October 11 of that year. One parcel of property is located close to Mangalam Marriage Palace, while the other is close to Ranjendra Institutes.

On February 16, 2023, and February 23, 2023, the report was delivered to the general manager of Sirsa Roadways. It was thereafter sent to the transport headquarters of Haryana in Chandigarh. A letter to the GM to finalize one of the locations was sent from the Chandigarh headquarters on March 21 of that year.

On May 17, a committee meeting convened under the SDM determined that the site in Bajekan village, near Mangalam Marriage Palace, was appropriate. The GM then sent a letter to the DC on September 13 of last year asking for the creation of a committee to carry out the land’s final examination. Since then, the procedure has remained unfinished.

A committee that the DC had appointed made a land suggestion, according to the GM, and the committee’s report had been turned in. “The government can acquire the land, paving the way for the new bus stand in Sirsa, if the suggestion is approved,” he said. He stated the Sirsa Roadways Depot carried around 20,000 people every day. Delhi, Jaipur, Jammu, Uttarakhand, Chandigarh, and so forth are all served directly by Sirsa.

The growth of battery rickshaws and auto-rickshaws, according to Mohan Lal, who journeys to Fatehabad every day, has reached a stage where accidents happen often as a result of the drivers’ relentless competition for customers.

The process of finding new property for the bus station is under progress, according to DC RK Singh.