OFFENCE * India - 400 passengers travel without tickets on MTC buses everyday
Chennai,India -The Times of India -18 Feb 2009: -- Passengers travelling by the Metropolitan Transport Corporation ( MTC) buses are often witness to a bus being halted by MTC ticket checking inspectors, sometimes during peak hours, to catch those taking a free ride... In what makes for startling statistics, an average of 350-400 persons are caught daily in Chennai for ticketless travel in MTC buses... The corporation collected Rs 1.40 crore as fines from ticketless travellers in 2008, when the number of ticketless travellers almost doubled, compared to 2007 when only 65,000 offenders were caught... Official sources revealed that as many as 1.27 lakh persons were caught from January to December 2008 for travelling without tickets. In January this year, more than 13,500 passengers were caught for committing the offence and were made to pay fines that totalled Rs 17.27 lakh - the highest amount in fines ever collected by MTC from ticketless travellers in a month... MTC collects an average of Rs 13 lakh a month as fines for ticketless travel...
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