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In the field of Transportation, the Group
has specialized in the provision, operation and management
of top of the line, state of art, most modern Euro standard
buses and luxury coaches for facilitating the ever increasing
comfort requirements of the inter city commuters by emphasizing
the implementation of management systems, achieving punctuality
of operations by the recruitment of highly trained operators
both operational on board and ground staff, skilled passenger
handling persons, motivated teams of people ready to facilitate
the passengers at the arrival terminals, during the course
of the journeys and at the terminating stations. Recently
the company has decided to move to Pakistan to provide a wider
range of professional services to the Governmental and other
interested bodies concerned with the establishment; development
and provisioning of high class inter city commuter services.
Even in Pakistan the MONOLITE International
(FZC) is not new to the field of transportation. They wish
to bring foreign investment into the local transport sector.
The company has been registered as a foreign branch office
with Securities and Exchange Commission and intends to run
and maintain intercity transportation system on different
routes in the province of Punjab.
President of the company Mr. Farrukh Nawaz
Chughtai is highly experienced, well-traveled and seasoned
businessman who established his business in a foreign country.
He achieved successful operation of his company in a short
span of time and now is held on the board of Directors of
many renowned companies in the Middle East and Europe. He
belongs to a family, which has a vast experience of running
intercity bus operations in Pakistan. The name of Rahbar travels
needs no introduction being one of the most successful bus
operating companies in Lahore. Mr. Majid Zaman the director
of Rahbar Travels, will run intercity operations of MONOLITE
International (FZC) in the capacity of one of the Director
of the company and now Rahbar Travels is being merged with
the Present management of MONOLITE International (Transportation
& Cargo Division) setting up the private bus station with
all facilities.
The present management of MONOLITE transport
and cargo division set up a private bus station with all the
facilities such as air-condition waiting hall, booking office,
separate toilets for ladies/gent, space for prayers, retiring
room for drivers, tuck shop, telephone booth etc at 7-Empress
road Lahore in 1992 under the name and style of Rahber Travels
and applied to the Government of Punjab for grant of a license
to launch its bus operation there-form as per provisions of
motor vehicle ordinance 1965(MVO1965) and the rules framed
there under.
The site was inspected by the Deputy Commissioner
Lahore, Superintendent Traffic Police Lahore, Secretary Regional
Transport Authority (RTA) Lahore, and representative of some
other department. On issuance of the requisite no objection
certificates the case of Rahbar travel along with some other
cases came up in a meeting of RTA for consideration, but the
request of Rahber Travels was turned down. Thereafter Rahber
Travels invoked write jurisdiction of the Hon 'able Lahore
High Court Lahore which after adjudication of the matter in
its entire perspective, set-aside the proceeding of RTA with
a direction to it to considered the case afresh. According
RTA in its subsequent meeting considered the case of rahber
Travels and approved it.
The MVO1965 requires that a company stand
have a minimal fleet of 8 vehicles to run the service. On
fulfillment of this requirement sectary RTA issued a license
to Rahber Travels in 1993 to launch its operation. Initially
the service was commenced between Lahore-Fasilabad and Lahore-Rawalpindi/Islamabad.
With the passage of time the fleet of Rahber Travel rose to
about 50 buses and the travel facilities were extended to
other cities such as multan, Bahawalpur, Rahim yar khan, Sadiqabad,
Murdan, Sawat etc.
During December 1998 under verbal order of
the then CM Punjab all the sanctioned company stands existing
in Lahore at that time (about 8 number) were forced to shift
their buses to the yard of Badami-bagh general bus stand under
the contention that intercity buses were a cause of congestion
and pollution. This logic was and is beyond comprehension
as urban buses being stage carriages take up/set down passengers
after short interval on various routes with in a city, while
express intercity buses being a type of contact carriages
pick up passengers from the premises of a company stand, embark
on their journey that ends at a stand/terminal in another
city. The so called cause of congestion/pollution attributed
to intercity buses vis-à-vis urban buses need to be assessed
properly for revival of the company stand in Lahore which
already stood sanctioned earlier; as intercity buses ejected
from the private stands and plying under compulsion from the
general bus stand can not extend the same level of quality
service to the commuters as was being extended to the company
stands.
The forgoing aspects has been sop lighted
in good faith on the basis of our past experience in the transport
field extending our a period of about 10 years. With this
background we are capable to successfully meet any challenge
associated with travel activity and tourism industry.
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