The Ticketing Ordeal
The woes of homebound people before the Eid festival have once again hit the headlines in newspapers. For the past week or so, the press has been crying hoarse about the ruthlessness of touts, at Kamalapur Railway Station and three main bus terminals of the city where they have been going about their business of fleecing the ticket-buying home-sick public. But in vain, the thugs and black marketeers have only thrived in collusion with a section of unscrupulous railway and road transport employees. Tickets at the railway station are being sold at twice and at times thrice the normal rate. So is the case at the bus terminals.
The launch passengers are no exception either. The station manager at Kamalapur blamed the homebound passengers for not buying ticket a month before the Eid and also contradicted the display board positions of tickets. In his own way he seemed to justify the unhealthy trend of black-marketing of tickets. At the bus terminals organised gangs are allegedly controlling sale of tickets under the nose of law enforcing agencies. Since these reports and photographs have been published in the local dailies with due importance nothing has been done to stop the illegal sale of tickets and stop persecution of passengers. This has almost become an annual grilling season for the paying public and that too under the 'supervision' of the keepers of law. Isn't there any agency to stop this illegal business and save the passengers from the clutches of the touts? We would very much like to ask: who is in charge there for the safety of the citizens.
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