[Resolved]  TNSTC — tickets sold in Black Market

Address: Tamil Nadu

Tickets of the Chenganacherry- Chennai SETC bus are sold in black market.

Since there are no reservation facilities for this bus, only seat reservation coupons are issued 45 minutes before departure of the bus. It is mentioned that only 2 coupens per person will be issued.

Yesterday 27th May 2010, I stood in the queue at the counter by 1.55 pm for the bus (TN 01 N 8103) which departs at 3.pm. The counter was opened at 2.40 pm and coupons were issued to only 5 persons and it was declared that the seats are full. Neither the conductor nor the drivers issued the coupons. It was another person wearing a ‘lungi’ and a shirt, issued it. As per the number of coupons issued the passengers should not be more than 10 in this 35 seater bus. But the bus was full and many passengers were turned away. Later this ‘lungi’ clad man told me that one passenger has not come and he can spare that seat to me for a consideration.
How can a person who has taken the coupon hardly 20 minutes back cannot turn up?. This clearly shows that that the coupons were sold earlier.

Another matter of corruption is that in the display board the amount of seat reservation coupon is purposefully erased.

Why can’t SETC start reservation for this bus?

It is high time that SETC look into this issue and find a solution to curb this corruption.

Biju George
27, VGP pon nagar
Sembakkom , Chennai -73