AGARTALA, Dec 26 (TIWN): The withdrawal of the handwritten passport has posed several problems to the common people in the state.

Talking to TIWN correspondent on Friday, Immigration official Kajal Das said that Withdrawal of handwritten passports has posed a problem to the common people while travelling as most of the people are carrying the handwritten passports.

He also said that the regular Volvo bus service has broken down and hardly the bus provide service once in a week.

With the sudden withdrawn of the hand written passport, the numbers of passengers travelling through the Volvo bus between Agartala to Kolkata via Dhaka has gradually come down and hardly  any passengers travels through h this bus.

It is to be mentioned here that as the handwritten passport is declared invalid it has also catered several problems for the common people, and they cannot travel to the neighbouring countries easily as they earlier did.

However, this declaration has also hampered the bus service in the state.

Lakhs of money has been invested to buy a Volvo bus for providing service Agartala-Kolkata via Dhaka   but even after beginning its maiden service TRTC is still struggling to get adequate number of passengers.

The Volvo bus service may be offering comfort to passengers but it is struggling to cater passengers.  Reportedly, TRTC is not getting adequate numbers of passengers for travelling to Kolkata via Dhaka on a regular basis

After waiting for several months, the state government has finally catered its own Volvo bus to the land locked Tripura to provide its own volvo bus service from Agartala to Kolkata via Dhaka but there is no adequate number of passengers to travel through the bus and with the withdrawal of the handwritten passports a very less numbers of passengers are travelling through this route, said Immigration official Kajal Das.

Although the service is not stopped fully but the Volvo bus travels to Kolkata via Dhaka only once in a week and the service tenure has fully come down.

However, he also commented that the sudden withdrawn of the hand written passport have hampered the service but it is expected that with the due time the service will resume its pace in full swing.

The bus fare has been fixed at Rs. 2000 for Kolkata-Dhaka-Agartala route and for Agartala-Dhaka-Kolkata it is fixed at Rs 1500; but TRTC is not getting adequate number of passengers despite of being such minimal charge.