Karachi: CNG bus project: Lack of e-ticketing system problem for city govt

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By Irfan Aligi

KARACHI: The city government is incurring losses due to its transport and communication department’s inability to initiate an e-ticketing system for the CNG bus project, which was launched a few months ago.

Sources told Daily Times that the lack of an e-ticketing system has compelled the CDGK to outsource all the operations of the CNG buses, but this step has been a failure due to certain loopholes

The sources said the city government’s 50 CNG buses are plying on two routes with 100 ticket booths, where the employees of a contractor work in two shifts.

Each employee draws a salary of Rs 6,000 coming up to Rs 1.2 million per month. There are 10 circuits on the two routes with two supervisors on each circuit drawing a salary of Rs 12,000 each amounting to Rs 240,000 per month.

The sources claimed that this outsourced operation only results in a number of passengers travelling in the buses without tickets, which is causing revenue loss to the city government.

The CDGK also has to pay a hefty amount to the contractor, whereas it can save money by simply hiring conductors for the buses.

The city government also lacks a monitoring system to keep check on any misappropriation of money at the ticketing facility.

A well-placed officer in the city government’s transport and communication department said there were reports that the ticket facility was indeed being misused, however, the CDGK is trying to deal with the issue.

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