When people outsmarts Railways...

Often governments try to outsmart the people while hiking prices of any products or services, but very rarely people get the chance to outsmart the governments. People of Hyderabad are giving a shock to Railways officials who plans to squeeze money from them.

Secunderabad Railway officials have made an experiment, but it backfires at them very badly. They increased the platform tickets from Rs. 10 to 20 for a temporary period of one week between October 17th to 26th in an attempt to encash huge rush for Dushera festival. However, they have limited this hike to Secunderabad station only.

Naturally, people are very much irked with this steep hike which can’t be justified at all. So, they have found an alternative idea to outsmart the greedy railway officials. People coming to give send off to their near and dear are now purchasing MMTS train tickets instead of platform tickets, because the minimum ticket is just Rs. 5 only.

Railway ticket collectors can’t object or stop them as they are carrying valid MMTS tickets. Railway is losing huge income whereas it expects to pocket additional income during this peak session. Railways officials expect the people to buy platform tickets at a cost of Rs.20 but they are not even spending Rs. 10 for platform tickets. They finish their work with just Rs. 5 only. Actually, Railways officials’ plans to limit the free wi-fi usage in the station with this idea, but it also backfire at them.