Jayalalithaa announces free bus travel for senior citizens in Chennai

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Jayalalithaa announces free bus travel for senior citizens in Chennai

The free travel, with a cap of ten journeys in a month, is the latest in the series of freebies implemented by the AIADMK regime such as cost-free milch cows, sheep, mixers, grinders and fans and laptop for students.


Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Thursday announced free bus travel for senior citizens in Chennai metropolitan area from her 68th birthday on February 24.
Making the announcement in the state assembly, she asserted that with this the AIADMK government has fulfilled “all the electoral promises” made by the party in 2011 in the state, which is set to go to polls in barely three months.
“We had made a poll promise in our election manifesto that senior citizens would be provided free bus passes…I am happy to say that with this announcement we have fulfilled all the promises made in the AIADMK’s election manifesto in 2011,” she said.
The free travel, with a cap of ten journeys in a month, is the latest in the series of freebies implemented by the AIADMK regime such as cost-free milch cows, sheep, mixers, grinders and fans and laptop for students.
“I am also very happy to say that besides fulfilling all our electoral promises, we have also implemented various other welfare schemes,” she said amid thunderous applause from ruling party legislators and allies.
She said in the first phase, the scheme for free travel for senior citizens would be implemented in the Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) buses in Chennai.
Under the plan, elderly people over the age of 60 may travel in all the MTC buses barring air-conditioned buses. The beneficiaries would be given ten tokens per month and they could give it to conductors in buses and travel free of cost.

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[yesmohan]

Between 8.00 AM to 10.30 AM and 5.00PM to 8.30 PM , crowd in the buses are so heavy, even youngsters could not travel.

Any how, it a welcome move for the senior citizens of lower middle class.

 

[tbs]

hi
another political drama for coming election....in reality..how many senior citizens are ready to face rush hour journey.....

lets hope for the best...

 

[yesmohan]

Sometimes, a person has to take 2 or 3 buses to reach his destination.

For, to and fro he has to undertake 4/ 6 journeys.

The total journeys of the free travel, with a cap of ten journeys in a month.

As such one would exhaust one's free chance in 2/3 days of travel, in a month.

However for a poor senior citizens, if he avail the free travel scheme, the accrual of monetary benefit would vary from Rs 50/- to Rs 150/- per month.

 

[yesmohan]

hi
another political drama for coming election....in reality..how many senior citizens are ready to face rush hour journey.....

lets hope for the best...

Behind all social welfare scheme, there will be a string behind! Here, it is the votes of poor and lower middle class senior citizens.

Senior citizens need not necessarily travel in rush hours. They can choose the lean hours according to their convenience..

 

[vgane]

Behind all social welfare scheme, there will be a string behind! Here, it is the votes of poor and lower middle class senior citizens.

Senior citizens need not necessarily travel in rush hours. They can choose the lean hours according to their convenience..

In Mumbai I have seen elderly traveling in local trains between 11 am-3 pm....Less jostling & more comfortable!

 

[Rangachari Sampathkumaran]

In view of the administrative difficulties (such as visiting the MTC depots with age proof, standing in the queue to collect the tokens every month etc.), many Senior Citizens may not prefer to avail this. Above all, the courteous behaviour by the Chennai Bus crew is well known (for a change, during the Dec 2015 rains and floods, they behaved well). Right from 1967, such indiscipline in Govt buses has been prevalent - even though few bus conductors show some courtesy to the elderly people, ladies and children.

 

[tbs]

Sometimes, a person has to take 2 or 3 buses to reach his destination.

For, to and fro he has to undertake 4/ 6 journeys.

The total journeys of the free travel, with a cap of ten journeys in a month.

As such one would exhaust one's free chance in 2/3 days of travel, in a month.

However for a poor senior citizens, if he avail the free travel scheme, the accrual of monetary benefit would vary from Rs 50/- to Rs 150/- per month.

hi
exactly....ten passes for a month.....if a person has to change two or three buses up and down.....within one day whole

passes will be over......free passes can be given in a subsidised manner for whole with unlimited cap...

 

[yesmohan]

All freebies schemes are aimed at to promote poor class and lower class. The prime concept with which these

schemes are conceived and implemented, could not get succeeded because of the reason many upper middle class /

upper class who otherwise economically ineligible have access to the schemes by fowl means.

I presume that no economic criteria announced in this scheme.