Ticketless Travel
Ticketless travel is an offence and punishable with fine and imprisonment.
In bangalore, ticketless travel is quite a normal site.In this city ticketless travel is forced.
For any short distance travel,conductors of BMTC buses refuse to give tickets, they collect 2 Rs and put them in their personal account.There are many people who like to travel this way leading to a revenue loss to the goverment and the transport corporation.
I had boarded a BMTC bus from Hoody to ITPL, a route which has jus 2 stops between it.The normal ticket cost would be 4 Rs on that particular bus.The conductor collected 3 bucks from around 10 people who got in and pocketed the cash without issuing tickets.When i asked for ticket the conductor said "For ticket you need to pay 2 Rs more ". I paid the extra money and collected the ticket.To my surprise none of the remaining commuters bothered to get tickets.
Travelling without tickets leads to a big revenue loss to the transport corporation and government. we should not only ensure that we buy tickets but also make sure that others also obtain their tickets.Huge costs are involved in maintainence of these busses and without our support this can't be done.We have always complained that bangalore busses are not good and the goverment is not taking any steps to maintain it, we need to strongly say NO when a conductor forces us to travel ticketless.
BMTC'S Appeal :
To enhance our status as the world class transport system where customer care reigns supreme, all that we need is your total cooperation and understanding in all our endeavours.
Help us to maintain the vehicles, bus stations and bus shelters neat and clean by
not dirtying them. They are your own and protect them as you would protect your
properties.
Avoid vandalism and avoid showing your ire on the buses. If they are damaged,
you are the loser.
No footboard travel, please. It may endanger your precious life and also block the
way to the passengers trying to get in or get down.
Avoid pilferage. If you do not buy ticket or pay less without demanding a ticket,
you are only losing, as the money denied to BMTC is benefit denied to you, the commuter.
If you happen to see any BMTC vehicle deserted, kindly take the trouble of informing us to the BMTC Control Room, (Tel.No: 2952522, 2952422) for your own benefit, as the break down of a BMTC bus is the break down of commuter's movement.
CITIZENS' CHARTER
We have brought out a charter for the benefit of our esteemed commuters, which provides all information on BMTC and defines all our activities and pleads for your cooperation for our continued service with improving its quality systematically.
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posted by Vasudev Udhatya @ 8:24 PM
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