MTC conductor with unaccounted cash faces action
Ram.Sundaram@timesgroup.com
Chennai:24.03.2019
A government bus conductor from Chennai has been pulled up for his inability to explain how he collected ₹705 during a trip without selling authorised tickets.
By selling fake tickets, not printed and distributed at authorised depots, conductors can swindle money collected from ticket sales, say activists, suspecting a possible scam.
M Kasimayan, an RTI activist from Ayappakam, had on July 7 travelled by a Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) bus on route G18 (T Nagar to Guduvanchery). On the way, a ticket checking squad stopped the bus. During inspection, the squad found that conductor Sekar had ₹705 unaccounted cash in his bag and none of the ₹15 tickets, sold to passengers during the trip, were recorded in the log sheet. “The conductor didn’t enter ₹15 ticket details as he knew that serial numbers would not match,” said Kasimayan in his complaint to transport commissioner J Radhakrishnan. Instead of checking the veracity of ₹15 tickets, the squad acted hand in glove with the conductor and issued a memo only for holding unaccounted cash, he added. The squad and conductor were summoned for inquiry in August. During inquiry, the squad members told MTC that the tickets were authorised but the conductor was unable to provide reasonable explanation or evidence to claim ignorance. Based on this, disciplinary proceeding was initiated against Sekar of Vadapalani depot, showed official documents.
The Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption had last year conducted a raid at Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation, Villupuram headquarters in a similar complaint. A racket involving officials, conductors and printing units had printed multiple fake tickets with same serial numbers.
TICKET TROUBLE: By selling fake tickets, conductors can swindle money collected from ticket sales
Ram.Sundaram@timesgroup.com
Chennai:24.03.2019
A government bus conductor from Chennai has been pulled up for his inability to explain how he collected ₹705 during a trip without selling authorised tickets.
By selling fake tickets, not printed and distributed at authorised depots, conductors can swindle money collected from ticket sales, say activists, suspecting a possible scam.
M Kasimayan, an RTI activist from Ayappakam, had on July 7 travelled by a Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) bus on route G18 (T Nagar to Guduvanchery). On the way, a ticket checking squad stopped the bus. During inspection, the squad found that conductor Sekar had ₹705 unaccounted cash in his bag and none of the ₹15 tickets, sold to passengers during the trip, were recorded in the log sheet. “The conductor didn’t enter ₹15 ticket details as he knew that serial numbers would not match,” said Kasimayan in his complaint to transport commissioner J Radhakrishnan. Instead of checking the veracity of ₹15 tickets, the squad acted hand in glove with the conductor and issued a memo only for holding unaccounted cash, he added. The squad and conductor were summoned for inquiry in August. During inquiry, the squad members told MTC that the tickets were authorised but the conductor was unable to provide reasonable explanation or evidence to claim ignorance. Based on this, disciplinary proceeding was initiated against Sekar of Vadapalani depot, showed official documents.
The Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption had last year conducted a raid at Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation, Villupuram headquarters in a similar complaint. A racket involving officials, conductors and printing units had printed multiple fake tickets with same serial numbers.
TICKET TROUBLE: By selling fake tickets, conductors can swindle money collected from ticket sales
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