Not to miss the bus, state road corps to take e-ticketing route

Geeta Nair
Posted: Thursday, Nov 27, 2008 at 0313 hrs IST
Updated: Thursday, Nov 27, 2008 at 0313 hrs IST

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Norms for road contract to be eased

Pune: need to venture innovative means and methods to control cost. One man operation and electronic fare collection system are some of the innovative measures to be adopted by STUs,” suggests a latest CIRT report on the State Transport Undertakings, Profile& Performance.

There are 23 State Road Transport Corporations 10 Municipal Transport Undertakings, 8 run by government departments and 11 government companies in public transport space. These together own 1,15,362 buses and generated total revenue of Rs 22,800.48 crore.

A fraction of this is a few hundred crore a year and this could be a blessing for the struggling STUs....

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