The Way India Travels in Bus

Firstly, I want to introduce myself. I am Jj and I belong to the small town of Madhya Pradesh in India. It is a place where people either use the bus or own vehicle for traveling to nearby cities for business and mostly health checkup. People use carrier for transportation. I use the bus from Rajasthan and MP.

   This system, this how did that for travelling in a bus, you need pay and buy a ticket. No matter which bus you are on, government or private. Paid money from traveler goes to bus owner which is used for fuel bus maintenance, conductor and driver’s salary. This management looks good and fair for everyone, right.

     If we talk about profit, Private Businessmen surely make money and this is only why he is doing the business, But for the government, this is not about only making profit, it’s much more giving service to people who paying taxes and living in a particular state only. The doubt comes when, after having greater traveler and high ticket price, the government has losses and private one makes money.

     Surely, there is something wrong in between. All factors are same for government and private bus except money submission.  Money collection takes O process. You pay for ticket and total collection data goes to government and conductor submit money to the bus depot, from there, money goes to respective ministry. The difference is people paying for what, bus ticket or travelling. Bus ticket is recognition for government as a revenue source.  Yes, I am questioning about accountability of bus conductor and people. This thing works when conductor offers less price for journey, but no ticket. Money goes in the pocket of conductor and customer satisfy with saving. This transaction will not be recognized by government.

    Do people not know about this deal? They do, but in preservence of saving money option they do not want to let go. As a result government does not get what they deserve and run into losses always. They are interested in short term benefits than long term and limited to themselves only. If I talk about government efforts to stop this. They stalled flying in different places to check. But conductors’ communication is bonded in such a way that they keep updating each other.

     As a result, MPRSTC was shut down a few years ago and RSRTC is running somehow. Reason behind MPRSTC shutting down that Private Bus owner done deal with the Politicians. At the same time, there is a large percentage of Private Bus owner is politician only. And of course huge loss. MPSRTC sold their buses to recover their losses. On the other side RSRTC maintained standards.

    We complain about government functionality, but at some spot, we are responsible too for this. This is not only in MP, India, but other parts of all over the world too. It is our own accountability for the system, As a result, we will get world class road, more comfortable bus etc. The condition applies no corruption.