BEST admin, panel in a tiff over procuring paper tickets

Mumbai | Tuesday | 11th December, 2018

Summary:

According to the administration, BEST conductors will be unable to issue tickets to passengers if the paper tickets are not introduced. The BEST administration and committee are in a tussle over the procurement of colourful paper tickets. "It has become necessary to procure paper tickets as ETIMs are not working," said a BEST official. The BEST had to get back to paper tickets over the past four months due to malfunctioning ETIMs. On Monday, the undertaking's administration proposed the procurement of 10,000 packets of paper tickets at the cost of Rs 48 lakh..