Most of the people in chennai would have used the electric trains for transport. As trains are quicker than buses most of the people prefer electric trains to buses. Ya. its one of the better services Government has implemented. Hats off to them. Still there are some areas they have to concentrate to provide a better service.
I too have used the service quite a few times. One day i was returning to my home in electric train and while i detrained the ticket collector checked for tickets . I showed my ticket and i climbed the bridge to move out of the railway station. I could find some people fined for not taking the tickets. Around 20 persons were fined in my stop. And some might have escaped. I had a similar experience another day.
Just try to calculate how many of them would use the train without taking tickets and how much loss it creates to the Government. Roughly calculating, if some 100 people dont take tickets for a trip in electric train and if the ticket fare is rs 5, around rs 500 is lost to the government for a single trip. Calculating the return trip it'l be around 1000. If the train has 10 to and fro trips per day around rs 10000 is lost and if 10 trains provide service then around rs 100000 is lost per day. Hope I've calculated to the minimum . I you are a electric train user in chennai you too might have known.
If there comes a stage such that if only a person who gets a ticket can enter the train and if somebody travelled would be fined for sure, then almost a few hundred thousands will be earned more than now. Sorry, the word earned wont suite it, as its the actual fare to be collected. Consider a bus and there it is almost impossible to travell without a ticket. But in case of electric trains till now such a situation has not come. Everyone will feel that it will be tough for a single person to check the persons of the whole train. Ya, its true. The needed number of persons shall be put in the stations to check the people for tickets there by providing employment to a few. With the increase in amount from the trains by implementing/following the rules properly, salary for the newly appointed persons could be given. Even it exceeds, it doesnt matter as we have provided employment for a few and have disciplined the public.
I am not trying to say that every people r not disciplined but a few and those who have travelled without a ticket in train may knew it. I've written this blog hoping that some day at sometime some responsible person would read this and take the necessary actions.
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