Chennai travels on MTC - Tiny info on huge MTC

PALLAVAN TRANSPORT CORPORATION LIMITED was formed under the Companies Act 1956, by the Government of Tamil Nadu on 01.01.1972 with a fleet strength of 1029 buses.The fleet strength gradually increased correspondingly to the requirements of the public and reached 2332 on 01.01.1994. Following that Pallavan Transport Corporation Ltd was bifurcated as Dr.Ambedkhar Transport Corporation Limited and Pallavan Transport Corporation Limited on 19.01.1994. The South of the Chennai Metropolitan city from EVR Periyar road came under the operational jurisdiction of the Pallavan Transport Corporation Limited. The North of Chennai Metropolitan city from EVR Periyar Road (including EVR Periyar road) came under the operational jurisdiction of the Dr.Ambedkar Transport Corporation Limited.

In the public interest, both the divisions were amalgamated into a single corporation under the name METROPOLITAN TRANSPORT CORPORATION (CHENNAI) LTD. with effect from 10-01-2001. It is the small info on big history of MTC and now we can see through some statistic reports on the MTC.

The Growth
	As on 01/01/1972		As on 31/03/2007
Depots	8		26
Fleet	1029		2803
Services	892		2554
Route	176		544
Employees	12178		17522
Passengers per day	12 lakhs		38.07 lakhs[Avg.]
Collection per day	2 lakhs		108.43 lakhs[Avg.]

Services

[Bus Types - as on 31/03/2007]

Single decker Leyland Tata 2363 378 Vestibule buses 42 Double deckers 10 Low floor buses 10 TOTAL 2803

Service Types

[As on 31/03/2007]

Ordinary services 963 'M' Services 383 Limited stop services 909 Express services 185 Deluxe services 18 Blue Line Services 28 Yellow Line services 36 Yellow/Blue Line services 78 Night Services 48 Scheduled kms per day 7.09 Lakhs Women cum children special trips 200

Facilities Proposed by MTC

• Air conditioned buses on selected routes.
  
  
• Feeder bus services to MRTS operation.
  
  
• Train-Bus link ticket.
  
  
• Prepaid Smart Card ticketing system.
  
  
• Vacation special card.
  
  
• Global Positioning System.
  

Vestibule bus samples :



Olden days MTC Buses:

Single Decker :



Double Decker :


Ordinary single decker :

PTC:



Dr. ATC :



Present day buses :








Final Verdict : MTC plays the vital role in the life of every Chennai citizen. In coming days, we have planned to review more on the services and quality of the MTC.

BSNL Poorband Service(Popularly called BSNL DATAONE BROADBAND)

BSNL - Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, owned by Indian Govt. and controlled by the Ministry of I.T. & Telecommunication. BSNL provides Broadband service with a trademark 'Dataone'. Their service was good enough till April. From this current month, May, their service is getting bad with frequent Server down problems. In the past 7 days. I faced this problem more than 6 times. When I call the Broadband customer care service, the people present over there are not aware on the current happenings and they just they note down the complaints. They promise to solve the issue within 24 hrs. But this is not the right service to the customers, 24 hrs is a huge time. Nowadays, BSNL is getting poorer and poorer by days. One more sad news is that Minister of this Ministry(I.T. & Telecommunication) Mr. Dayanidhi Maran resigned the post due to the family feud over the DMK party.

Final Verdict : No one cares about customer. Customer care is just a word and not in action.

First Post! Formal Post!

Hi Guys,

I am also from Chennai, so it will not be different thing for me to share with you guys. I have planned to bring the news happening in and around the Chennai. News, it not only means the formal functions in the city or new outlets of retails stores or upcoming multiplex mafia. It includes all starting from Politics, Corporation news, MTC services and tragedies, BSNL poorband(Broadband) service and also many more on Chennai. Sometimes discussions are made over the International stuffs relating to India.

Jai Hind!

Regards,

Caretaker.