pune the pune mahanagar parivahan mahamandal limited pmpml has thrown the book at its private contractors over the issue of drivers not halting at bus stopsthe issue a major cause for concern among daily commuters has prompted the transport utility to tell the contractors to ensure the drivers follow rules or face strict actionwhile putting the onus on the buses run by private contractors pmpml joint managing director ajay charthankar said that the constant reshuffle of drivers is at the root of the problem and assured that they were working towards resolving it the problem lies with the buses run by private contractors charthankar saidthey keep changing their drivers almost daily and the new driver is unaware of the system we met them on monday and instructed them to tell their drivers to learn the rules and regulations from now on no matter who the driver is he should know the system and follow it there can be no exception he addedcharthankar also added that the drivers employed by pmpml know the system and adhere to itwith technology forming one prong of the solution to the problem and the bogey of tough action being the other the number of such instances has reduced when the driver takes his seat at the wheel he has to press four buttons on a machine this will enable the bus to be tracked the transport utility has launched an intelligent traffic management sy stem itms recently which allows all the buses on each route to be tracked by those sitting in front of computersonce the buses are tracked we will get to know where they are stopping whether they are stopping or not whether they are speeding etc charthankar saidhowever for this to happen seamlessly the system in the bus needs to be activated by the driver in the case of the buses managed by the private contractors this is not happening hence we are not able to track them resulting in stops being skipped much to the passengers chagrin he addedof the fleet comprising nearly 2000 buses 653 are being run by private contractors recently the pmpml was at the centre of a controversy after the utility slapped a penalty of rs14 crore on the contractors for various reasons which included skipping bus stopsthis problem needs a solution the pmpml has always talked about taking several steps but this basic thing seems to have no solution till today buses dont always stop for passengers at so many different places it seems that the pmpml doesnt know how to deal with the issue sanjay shitole secretary of the pmp pravasi manch said