MSRTC conductors to welcome passengers with a smile

MSRTC conductors to welcome passengers with a smile

ST CONDUCTORS will accord warm welcome lo passengers aboarding the bus at the originating point and give information to them such as reserved seats for women, senior citizens, leaving time of the bus halting time at the important stops enroute. expected reaching time, emergency gate, introduce driver etc from the opening day of New Year.

Maharashtra State Read Transport Corporation (MSRTC) will start giving smart cards to permanent and temporary pass holders such as students and employees from January 1 - 2014. Similarly, it has decided to maintain uniformity in the bus station boards all over Maharashtra from the same day. Moreover, it will launch accident-free campaign for safety of passengers from January 3 upto 17 in the State. 

Divisional Controller, MSRTC. Nagpur. while addressing a press conference at Ganeshpeth Main ST Bus Station here on Sunday. He said, these schemes are being implemented with a view to projecting a better image of ST in the eyes of the people. Before leaving the bus say from Nagpur. the conductor will first welcome the passengers and provide the information to them by expecting cooperation from them. There are 1105 conductors working in Nagpur region and all of them will do so. MSRTC will make efforts to maintain timings of the buses, he added.

MSRTC has already started providing smart cards to students and employees at Panvel. Mumbai Central and Swargate (Pune) and Nagpur is the fourth place to implement the scheme. It will also start giving smart cards from Mor Bhavan terminus, if it gets encouraging response. As part of accident-free campaign lor the fortnight, the officers have organised eye camp for drivers, invited experts to enlighten them and decided to felicitate drivers with remarkable performance.