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For commuters, the paper tickets are here to stay for a longer time,” he said.A senior BEST official said the paper tickets were being procured as an “alternative” to e-ticketing machines. But now it seems they are going for repeated orders of several thousand packets of paper tickets. MUMBAI: The BEST administration on Monday brought to the notice of committee members that it was procuring 10,000 packets of paper tickets worth Rs 48 lakh for the red buses. He is exercising his powers to procure the paper tickets after the panel rejected his proposal,” Ganacharya pointed out, adding, “We had allowed the management to procure paper tickets only once as it was a stop gap arrangement when the e-ticketing machines were non-functional. So, we have no option but to go for paper tickets,” he said.Suhas Samant (Shiv Sena) said the undertaking had a few e-ticketing machines which were being used at Backbay and other depots..