Incredible Chennai

Chennai travels on MTC - Tiny info on huge MTC

2007-05-16T07:57:00.000-07:00

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

Double deckers

Low floor buses

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)

2007-05-16T03:40:00.000-07:00

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!

2007-05-16T03:26:00.000-07:00

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.