Kolkata, July 15 -- Promising a sweeping overhaul of West Bengal's transport sector, BJP state president Samik Bhattacharya on Wednesday said that the government will join hands with the private sector to improve the transportation system across the state.
Bhattacharya, who attended the inauguration of a fleet of long-distance buses linking Kolkata with Delhi, Chennai and other major cities, alleged that the previous Trinamool Congress (TMC) government had crippled the state's public transport system, saying government-run buses had virtually disappeared from the roads across Kolkata and the rest of West Bengal.
"In the last 15 years, the West Bengal State Transport Corporation had been pushed to the brink of extinction. State buses have ...