Ticket fares should be regulated

People are leaving for their hometowns, mostly using intercity bus services and other transport facilities. Transport services, however, are exploiting the rush of people by increasing ticket prices. To exploit people's urgent need to get home is not only shameful, but is also outrageous. Many ticket clerks and employees are purchasing tickets under false names and then selling them to passengers for an extremely high price.

Ticket fare of all the buses have been fixed through discussion. Passengers should inform law-enforcement agencies if they are charged extra money for tickets. Most bus owners have been violating the BRTA's rules by fixing ticket prices as per their whim. The concerned authorities should take stringent action and give exemplary punishment to those who are violating rules and regulations so that this practice stops.

Zubair Huq, By E-mail