TRUE INCIDENT--Ranjani - Useful for people traveling in Chennai buses!!
True Incident happened for a lady who is a commuter in Chennai MTC!!
" I m working in Chennai One(Thoraipakkam), Chennai. I usually travelby Metropolitan Transport Corporation(MTC) bus, from jain college stop (Which is near to my office) to tidel park and from Tidel park I will catch train, to home. MTC bus coming from kelambakkam(19B,21H) mostly wont stop in tidel park in early days. So I usually prefer to get into T51 bus, which will stop in tidel park stop. After some time 19B started stopping in tidel park also.
Today while returning from office at around 8.30 pm, I was in a hurry to catch my 9.28 pm train at Tidel park. I got up a bus(19B) in Jain College at around 8.45 pm, and asked the conductor to give a ticket for tidel park stop. He said, the bus wont stop there, and he asked me to get down at signal if it stops there or else get down at stop next to tidel park. I was argugingwith him that I am going daily with the same bus and get down in the tidel park stop. But he kept on saying the same thing.. I got irritated with conductor response. Suddenly I remembered a complaint phone no.(9884301013) I read in one bus sometime back and noted down in my
mobile. I called that no. and said about the incident that conductor is not stopping in the usual stop.
The MTC representative (person at the other end) asked me to give the phone to the conductor. The conductor was not interested to talking with his official. The MTC rep. asked me the bus registration no. He enquired where is the bus at that time and I said it is in Kandhanchavadi. The MTC rep. said he will come in the line and talk to them. I was curious how he will come and catch the bus.
After few mins. the wireless transmitter(to track the bus), near the driver in the bus started shouting... Driver stop the bus. Driver stop the bus in the left side of the road. Driver was not sure what is happening may be his first experience, for others(including me) it is the real first experience. The driver stopped the bus and started listening to the transmitter. The MTC rep. enquired why the bus is not stopping in tidel park stop. The driver said he stops in tidel park stop and in the previous trip
also he has done. The rep. asked him then why the conductor is saying like that. He asked the conductor what is the issue. The conductor was speechless. The driver somehow managed the situation and supported the conductor by saying that the conductor was new to this route. The driver asked excuse for the incident and said he will stop in the Tidel Park stop.
The MTC rep. said he wanted to talk the passenger who called him. I went near the transmitter and spoke to the MTC rep. He said sorry for the incident happened and asked sorry on behalf of MTC. Everyone in the bus were surprised of things happening. I came back to my seat and I was so embarrassed as all were looking at me. Few passengers asked me what is the number, and whom I called. They also took the number. The bus stopped in Tidel Park stop then. After getting down I called the MTC rep. and said the bus stopped in the stopping.
It was a nice experience for me and others who traveled in the bus, including driver and conductor and I was very surprised after this incident. Yes, nowadays good things are happening in government sector also and technology is used properly."
Complaint Phone number(s) for Chennai MTC bus: 9884301013 / 9445030516 / 9383337639
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Indian teacher's shock at his $9.8bn bank balance
An Indian teacher got the shock of his life when he checked his bank account online and found 490bn rupees ($9.8bn).
Parijat Saha expected his balance to be $200 and could not believe his eyes - but a check at an ATM confirmed his billionaire status, on paper at least.
The honest Mr Saha rang the State Bank of India (SBI) to point out the error.
Red-faced bank officials would not comment, but sources say the funds were "uncleared" and he could not have withdrawn the money if he had tried.
'Astronomical'Mr Saha's monthly salary as a school teacher in the eastern state of West Bengal is 35,000 rupees ($700; £450).
But his account balance of $9.8bn is closer to India's annual education budget of $11.5bn.
"On Sunday evening, when I was checking my savings account balance on the internet, I was expecting an amount of a little more than 10,000 rupees ($200)," Mr Saha, who lives in the town of Balurghat in South Dinajpur district, told the BBC.
The billions he found there instead have left him in shock.
"I called up a friend in the bank and joked, maybe money is overflowing in your bank, that's why your system has remitted so much money into my account," he said.
The government-run bank - motto "Safe Banking with SBI" - has not explained what happened.
Subhashish Karmakar, chief manager of the bank's branch in Balurghat, declined to speak about the source of the funds or how the money got into Mr Saha's account.
"I have been specifically asked not to comment on this issue," he told the BBC.
The bank's regional headquarters in Calcutta and national headquarters in Mumbai have been alerted and officials are trying to figure out what went wrong, sources in the bank say.
Mr Saha says he has managed to withdraw the $200 from his account that belonged to him.
"Even though I got my money back, the account still holds the billions of dollars as uncleared amount. I don't know how long I'll have to keep that astronomical figure in my account."
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