HC: Why make people come to bus conductors for ticket?
TNN | Updated: Jan 17, 2019, 09:50 IST
Representative imageNEW DELHI: Why should DTC bus conductors make passengers come to them for issuing tickets, rather than get up and go to each traveller?
The Delhi high court on Wednesday posed the query to Delhi government, seeking to know the rationale behind the current practice in DTC and cluster buses.
A bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice V K Rao said that in the agreement between the Delhi government and the cluster bus operators, there is a clause that provides that conductors have to go to each passenger and issue them a ticket.
The court asked the government how it will ensure implementation of this clause in cluster and Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) buses where conductors are seen sitting in their seats and passengers go to them to buy the tickets.
HC’s query came on a PIL that highlighted the clause and complained that conductors in DTC and cluster buses never move through the bus to ensure everyone has been issued a ticket and instead remain seated in their designated seat.
The petition states that conductors are not concerned with the difficulties faced by women with babies, physically disabled people and senior citizens.
During the brief hearing, Justice Rao observed that in Andhra Pradesh, conductors do go to the passengers to issue them tickets. HC issued notice to the Delhi government and DTC, and sought their stand on the plea that has asked for appropriate rules or guidelines making it mandatory for conductors to issue tickets to all passengers who board a bus.
The Delhi high court on Wednesday posed the query to Delhi government, seeking to know the rationale behind the current practice in DTC and cluster buses.
A bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice V K Rao said that in the agreement between the Delhi government and the cluster bus operators, there is a clause that provides that conductors have to go to each passenger and issue them a ticket.
The court asked the government how it will ensure implementation of this clause in cluster and Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) buses where conductors are seen sitting in their seats and passengers go to them to buy the tickets.
HC’s query came on a PIL that highlighted the clause and complained that conductors in DTC and cluster buses never move through the bus to ensure everyone has been issued a ticket and instead remain seated in their designated seat.
The petition states that conductors are not concerned with the difficulties faced by women with babies, physically disabled people and senior citizens.
During the brief hearing, Justice Rao observed that in Andhra Pradesh, conductors do go to the passengers to issue them tickets. HC issued notice to the Delhi government and DTC, and sought their stand on the plea that has asked for appropriate rules or guidelines making it mandatory for conductors to issue tickets to all passengers who board a bus.
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