Omni Buses ,Contract Carriages is a name given to a Bus organised by people to visit places as a group.
What happens is the fleecing of travelers.
Previously the Omni Bus operators, to circumvent the Law will take the signatures of the travelers in the Bus in a white sheet to show it is a group.
Now even this is dispensed with boarding Passes(?) and SMS confirmation.
The normal fare to Madurai From Chennai is Rs.257-Super.
Omni Buses charge from Rs 500 on-wards during off-season.
During festivals it is Rs 1600(non ac) during last Deepavali!
This year it is expected to go up to 2000!
The Government collects a Tax of Rs.3000 per quarter .
But these Buses pay 450 by showing that it is group travel!
Basic amenities are specified int The Madras Motor Vehicles Tax Act.
Barring a few none of the operators follow these rules.
Those with permit numbering 1500 operate in Tamil Nadu.
During Festival Season, the tickets are sold to Brokers and the price is what is fixed by them!
And the places they stop for eating……one has to experience the Hygiene and the price!
These Dhabas are controlled by Goons and you can do nothing about it .
The Government has provided Complaint Numbers.9 for irregularities on The Omni Buses).
044-23452377-23452320.
Try your luck.
The government is aware of this and no action is taken because the Donations these operators offer to the parties,Ruling and The Opposition!
Other Buses are ordinary Buses registered in other States and are run in Tamil Nadu illegally
Tamil Nadu Motor Vehicle Act’ Excerpts.
Advance booking.— Subject to the provisions of the clauses specified hereunder advance booking
and reservations of accommodation in an Express service or ordinary service whose distance of the route
exceeds 120 kilometres shall be permitted on application made orally or in writing by or on behalf of the
bonafide passengers, and where reservation is made no person or persons other than the person or persons for
whom the accommodation is so reserved shall occupy such accommodation except with the permission of the
conductor on duty in the Express service or ordinary service whose distance of the route exceeds 120
kilometres:
(i) Advance booking shall mean sale of passenger tickets not less than 2 hours in advance of the
schedule time of departure of the stage-carriages.
Advance booking shall be permitted not more than ten days in advance of the date of the intended
journey.
Advance booking shall be stopped when the number of tickets for which passengers seats are provided
in the stage carriage is sold out.
Advance booking shall be according to priority of application and for this purpose an advance booking
register in the prescribed form R.R.S.S. shall be maintained or caused to be maintained by the holder of the
permit of the Express service or ordinary service whose distance of the route exceeds 120 kilometres.
However where the advance booking is done by computerised reservation system, it would be enough if
necessary reservation application forms are preserved along with a journey bill showing the date, time and
service together with the boarding and destination points for each reserved passenger and the seat allotted.
Reserved seats shall be permitted to be occupied only on production of the ticket or tickets booked in
advance for the intended journey.
For the purpose of identifying the seats reserved rows of the seats shall be assigned with distinguishing
letters in capital in the alphabetical order, and individual seats shall be assigned with distinguishing numbers
in the serial order, and the letters and the numbers so assigned shall be displayed conspicuously on the rows
of the seats, and the individual seats, respectively.
A plan showing the arrangement of seats shall be made available for the applicants to enable them to
have their choice of seats from those seats which have not been reserved already for other passengers….
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Restriction of persons and goods near drivers seat.— No person may sit nor may any goods be placed
on the right of the driver of a transport vehicle fitted with right hand steering control and on the left of the
driver of a transport vehicle fitted with left hand steering control.
Stopping places.— The Transport Authority, may, if no stopping places have been fixed for a stage
carriage in accordance with the provisions of any statute, fix such places for such carriages after consultation
with such other authority as it may deem desirable. Such stopping places shall be indicated by means of notice
boards. The driver of a stage carriage shall stop it at such stopping places when so required by any person
wishing to alight or to enter but he need not stop the stage carriage for a person wishing to enter it if it is
already full. Halts for the purposes of setting down or taking up passengers shall be limited to the time
reasonably necessary for such purpose, on routes along which stopping places have been fixed, no driver of a
stage carriage shall stop it at any place other than such stopping place except—
(i) when failure to stop the vehicle would constitute an offence punishable under these rules or under any
law for the time being in force; or
(ii) in the case of a mechanical breakdown.
245. Provision of public stands for public service vehicles.— (a) The local authority shall apply
to the Regional Transport Authority for approval of any ‘scheme for construction of a public stand for
any class of public service vehicles. The application shall be accompanied by a sketch of the proposed
site and the blue print of the structures proposed to be erected with the approval of the Director of Town
and Country Planning, Madras and a fee as specified in the Table under rule 279 and shall contain the
following particulars, namely:—
The advantage of having a public stand;
The class of vehicles for which the stand is proposed;
The extent of the site proposed and the nature of roads in the locality;
The number of vehicles likely to use the stand;
The maximum number of vehicles that can be stationed at any one time;
http://www.tn.gov.in/sta/tnmvr1989.PDF
http://www.tnstc.in/index.html
http://www.indiatransit.com/withinstate.aspx?qWhichState=30&qFromCity=11&qToCity=44&qServiceType=0
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