MyBus: 75% fare cut for disabled, students

BHOPAL: For safer, hassle-free and convenient public transport, Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) will launch Mayor smart pass services from Wednesday. The smart pass will provide concessional fare to students, disabled, domestic help and government employees among others in low-floor buses.
The service will be launched by mayor Alok Sharma at Vindhyachal Bhawan at noon on Wednesday.The proposal for these smart passes was approved by general council of the corporation recently. General commuters would be issued smart passes for Rs 800 while certain other categories like school-college students, disabled, senior citizens, journalists etc will be issued the same pass at concessional rates and offered various discounts . Three centres would be opened for distribution of smart passes-at ISBT, Jawahar Chowk city bus depot and a third mobile unit that would be placed as per demand. At the centres, commuters would be issued new passes while existing passes would also be renewed. Besides, each of the 19 zonal offices will hold a camp every day for a month for issuing these passes to commuters. The smart pass would be applicable only for BCLL run low-floor buses. In case this pass is stolen, damaged or lost, a new pass would be issued at the cost of Rs 50.