LTC introduces e-ticketing

LAHORE
Lahore Transport Company (LTC) has introduced e-ticketing on busses to facilitate private transport operators and commuters. The system will be helpful in preventing pilferages in fare collection system and ascertain subsidy being given to private transport operators in a transparent manner.
This system will first be available to the passengers on route B1 from Friday. The facility will be available on all busses of all routes of the provincial metropolis in less than a week.
“This is the vision of Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif who always stresses the importance of public transport and revolutionary changes for rectification of the whole system. E-ticketing is being introduced in urban transport system that viewed as a milestone and will be proved as role model for other cities in Pakistan.
This public friendly and cost effective system will encourage foreign investors in urban transport system,” said Lahore Transport Company Chairman Khawaja Ahmad Hassan while chairing the tripartite agreement signing ceremony of e-ticketing among Lahore Transport Company, TPL Trakker Limited and LTC private transport operators at the Chief Minister Secretariat. MNA Mehr Ishtiaq, Chief Executive Officer, LTC, Khawaja Haider Latif and others were present in the meeting.
Khawaja Ahmad Hassan said the technology was being used in Singapore and now commuters in Lahore would benefit from this technological advancement and the system would run on build-operate-transfer. He said it would help the transport operators by preventing them in revenue pilferage. In accordance with the e-ticketing system bus passengers will apprise the conductor about the desired destination and the conductor will type it into the handheld device, which will give a ticket printout for the passengers. The device will be equipped with WiFi, GPRS and GPS, so it will send real time data in respect of number of passengers to a centralised computer monitoring system for fare

collection analysis.
auction: A total of 11 plots, including nine commercial and two residential, were auctioned by the Lahore Development Authority against a sum of Rs. 124.72 million on Thursday.
Officials said maximum bid was offered for a corner plot No. 02 situated at the Civic Centre’s block of Jubilee Town measuring 21 marlas 192 sq. feet which was auctioned against Rs. 35.178 million. Its bid starting price had been fixed Rs. 1.595 million per marla whereas it was auctioned against Rs. 1.61 million per marla.
Tenancy rights of the newly constructed four storey community centre on a 3.5 kanals piece of land at Civic Centre, Garden Town, were auctioned against a sum of Rs. 11.23 million per year where as the bid starting price had been fixed as Rs.10 million per year.
A total of 39 bidders had deposited the earnest money for participating in the open auction which was held at the LDA Community Centre, 239-A, New Muslim Town. Tough competition was observed on this occasion as competitors enthusiastically offered their bids. Per marla base price of these plots had been estimated by the approved Evaluators of the State Bank of Pakistan.