MTC conductor who fell short by ₹1 asked not to report to work
Ram.Sundaram@timesgroup.com 17.03.2018
Chennai: Departmental action has been initiated against a government bus conductor in Chennai after a checking squad found a difference of ₹1 between the value of tickets sold by him and the amount collected.
K Siva, a conductor from Aynavaram depot, said he had mistakenly given a new ₹2 coin instead of ₹1to a passenger in a crowded MTC bus.
Siva on Wednesday evening, was issuing tickets to passengers on a bus to Pudur from Villivakkam, when a ticket checking squad boarded the vehicle near Madhanakuppam. The team found a woman passenger travelling without ticket worth ₹7. When asked, she told the checking inspectors she had handed over the fare to Siva, but he did not issue her the ticket.
Inspectors checked the Traffic Record (TR), which carries details about the number of tickets sold and collection made. “If their claims were right, the amount collected through sale of tickets should have exceed the value of tickets sold. But it fell short by just one rupee,” said Siva.
“I gave a two rupee coin to one of the passengers instead of one rupee coin by mistake. It is difficult to differentiate it by size in a crowded bus in which a conductor is expected to issue tickets within a few seconds,” he added.
Authorities, however, handed him a memo (a copy of which is with TOI) for not issuing a ticket to a passenger and for the collection falling short. The conductor has been instructed not to report to work until the inquiry was over. In a separate incident, a MTC driver from Kundrathur depot was suspended for using mobile phone while driving based on a passenger’s complaint.
Ram.Sundaram@timesgroup.com 17.03.2018
Chennai: Departmental action has been initiated against a government bus conductor in Chennai after a checking squad found a difference of ₹1 between the value of tickets sold by him and the amount collected.
K Siva, a conductor from Aynavaram depot, said he had mistakenly given a new ₹2 coin instead of ₹1to a passenger in a crowded MTC bus.
Siva on Wednesday evening, was issuing tickets to passengers on a bus to Pudur from Villivakkam, when a ticket checking squad boarded the vehicle near Madhanakuppam. The team found a woman passenger travelling without ticket worth ₹7. When asked, she told the checking inspectors she had handed over the fare to Siva, but he did not issue her the ticket.
Inspectors checked the Traffic Record (TR), which carries details about the number of tickets sold and collection made. “If their claims were right, the amount collected through sale of tickets should have exceed the value of tickets sold. But it fell short by just one rupee,” said Siva.
“I gave a two rupee coin to one of the passengers instead of one rupee coin by mistake. It is difficult to differentiate it by size in a crowded bus in which a conductor is expected to issue tickets within a few seconds,” he added.
Authorities, however, handed him a memo (a copy of which is with TOI) for not issuing a ticket to a passenger and for the collection falling short. The conductor has been instructed not to report to work until the inquiry was over. In a separate incident, a MTC driver from Kundrathur depot was suspended for using mobile phone while driving based on a passenger’s complaint.
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