Make Permits Must For E-Autos: Unions

'Such vehicles are causing losses to owners and drivers of conventional autorickshaws'

- AKNISREE KARTHIK @Bengaluru

WHILE the transport department has exempted electric autos and those running on alternative fuels like methanol and ethanol from requiring permits, auto drivers and unions have demanded that they should be allowed to ply only with permits. They claim that electric autos operating on Bengaluru roads without a permit is cutting into their revenue.

Permits play as a regulatory tool to check the number of autos on road. The state transport department in July increased the permits from 1.55 lakh to 2.55 lakh for the next five years. However, in the absence of permits for e-autos, hundreds are getting on road every day, thus increasing congestion in the city, unions rued.