chandigarh punjabs babus will now go on official tours in hired vehicles as part of austerity measures the punjab government on friday took a policy decision to provide hired vehicles to officers as per their entitlement as a step towards ensuring more touring and inspection of ongoing works in the field a spokesman of the finance department said the estimated cost of running a government vehicle is about rs 74000 per month for official tours and rs rs 40000 per month in case of a private vehicle in light of austerity measures the decision of the finance department will be a step forward to reduce avoidable expenditure of the government for transparency in hiring vehicles will be taken on rent from the open market by way of a tendering process for which heads of departments will be the competent authority the decision has been approved by chief minister parkash singh badal