Ticketless * India - Taking a bus ride
Bangalore,India -The Deccan Herald, by S Lalitha -17 Dec 2007: -- Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) is touching a record-high figure this financial year with regard to the number of ticketless travellers and the penalty amount collected... Blame it on increase in migrants to the City, lack of integrity on the part of public or even pilfering by conductors. Whatever the cause attributed, the fact is that the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) is touching a record-high figure this financial year with regard to the number of ticketless travellers and the penalty amount collected... The fine collected for eight months of the present financial year has already touched Rs 52.13 lakh with 64,702 passengers booked for travelling without ticket. The penalty collected for ticketless travel for the whole of last year was only Rs 54.76 lakh... There has been no change in the number of trips checked for the corresponding period during previous years. “We expect the penalty figure to touch around Rs 65 lakh this financial year,” Divisional Traffic Officer Naveen told Metrolife...Labels: ticketless passengers
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