bus routes 251, 77, 42 and 20C, he will, for the benefit of the House, obtain from the National Land Transpo…
(No. B/858) Mr K. Rookny (Third Member for Pamplemousses & Triolet) asked the Minister of Land Transport whether, in regard to bus routes 251, 77, 42 and 20C, he will, for the benefit of the House, obtain from the National Land Transport Authority, information as to whether it is in presence of representations in relation to the state of the bus services along same and, if so, indicate the remedial measures being contemplated in relation thereto.
Mr Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are four routes being questioned here in a busy conurbation. So, the reply that has been provided to me is six pages long.
Yes, please circulate it!
I am going to circulate it but I shall…
Briefly you may go through the main points and it will be circulated.
Yes. I took note of the Facebook page of the hon. Member on 31 August 2025 and NLTA was requested immediately to conduct an enquiry. There are cases where several operators are not providing adequate service; this is for sure as you can more fully read in the reply. I have to stress the fact that the attention of the Disciplinary Committee chaired by Barrister Aratee Prayag will be done and the consequence of this is revocation of licenses, which can understandably be envisaged, if so required. On a last note, Mr Deputy Speaker, Sir, last Friday, Cabinet took note of my Ministry giving instruction to the Attorney General’s Office to draft the Bus Services Bill and this will make the provision for the use of technology to better enable the NLTA to monitor services. So, such problem will be resolved given time.
Yes, one question?
Mr Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would be grateful if the hon. Minister could inform the House when could the inhabitants of Baie du Tombeau and Calebasses start seeing improvement in the situation?
Like I said, the Achilles' heel of the NLTA right now is that it does not have enough supervising staff on the field. Like I said before, once we have technology – the Fleet Management System and all – from the office they can monitor
78 whether the buses are not compliant with their agreed timetables, on which they are actually being paid for. So, please, bear with us for some time. My officers told me that the tender for the Fleet Management System can be floated for the consultancy and for the contractor on 15 October. So, it will take some more time.
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