MTC BUS ROUTES

MTC BUS ROUTES

The Metropolitan Transport Corporation, Chennai, is a Government of Tamilnadu undertaking, which caters to the transporting needs of the people of Chennai. Being of one of the largest metros in India, Chennai faces the stiff challenge of transporting people in Chennai and its suburbs. MTC is doing a outstanding service in providing transport facilities to the Chennaities.

It operates under an area of around 3900 sq. kilometers and transports around 57 lakh passengers per day. Its average revenue is around Rs. 217 lakhs per day. It has a fleet strength of about 3400 vehicles with roughly 22600 staff manning them.

Recently it has modernised its fleet, by inducting a lot of air conditioned buses in important revenue generating routes. It has introduced hydraulic door closing systems in many buses. This has prevented footboard travel. It has introduced low floor buses for the convenience of senior citizens. It has provided electronic ticket vending machines to conductors for issuing tickets. It has brought more accountability into the system.

Considerable innovation has been made in the fare structure also. If you buy a 30 Rupees ticket, you can travel on any bus for any number of times on that day. The tickets are available on almost all routes.

You can search for route information at the MTC website at http://www.mtcbus.org/. In this page click the route menu and select the routewise info or stagewise info submenu. You can select the bus route no. and click search you can see the details of the route. (click on the image to get an enlarged view)



Alternatively you can search stagewise by clicking on stagewise submenu. Choose the origin station and click search. You will get the information about the route (click on the image to get an enlarged view)



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CHENNAI CORPORATION GRIEVANCE REDRESSAL ONLINE

Chennai Corporation is the oldest municipal institution in India established in 1688. The size of the city has grown manifold, going with the increase in population. The ambit of the Chennai Corporation has been constantly increasing.The Corporation is headed by a Mayor who presides over 155 councilors representing a ward. The administration is headed by a Commissioner. He is assisted by three Joint Commissioners and one Deputy Commissioner.

Chennai corporation is facing the daunting task of maintaining the area of nearly 174 sq Kms. It has to take care of building roads, maintaining street lights, garbage cleaning, construction of bridges, maintaining of maternity wards, administration of schools, maintenance of parks and play fields.

Chennai Corporation is trying its best to address all the maintenance issues faced by the residents of Chennai. But due to lack of communication there may be some grievances to be addressed. But with the advent of internet, Chennai corporation is utilising the internet to reach the people to function effectively.

One such facility available online is submitting of grievance online. If you have any complaint you can bring it to the notice of the Corporation authorities by submitting the complaint online. Just long on to http://www.chennaicorporation.gov.in/index.htm and look for the online public grievance link (click on the image to get an enlarged view)



In the next screen, choose the options given (i.e. Register complaints via internet)(click on the image to get an enlarged view)



Provide all the details required in the Registration of the Complaint form. Then click submit complaint at the end.(click on the image to get an enlarged view)



You will be returned with a computer generated complaint number. You can use this number to check the status of your complaint in the second screen shown above.

Chennai Metro Water and Sewerage Board- Online Complaints

Online Complaints

Tamilnadu government is in the forefront of e governance in Indian States. Lot of government services to the common man are being accessed via internet. People can sit in their drawing rooms and avail the services such as obtaining birth certificate, nativity certificate, encumbarance certificate etc. Only few services have been listed above. There are lot of other services offered and many other services in the pipeline.

The main advantage of e-governance is that it removes the middle men involved in the process and as a result corruption is reduced to a large extent. The process is almost instanteous and there is no waiting period.

One of the services which is interesting is the filing of complaints about Chennai metro water and sewerage system online. Gone are days when you had to chase a engineer or a employee of the department to attend to your grieviance. If you have any complaint or grieviance about metro water or the sewage you can go to http://www.chennaimetrowater.com/onlinetxt.htm and register your complaint online. All you need to know is your CMC no. which will be available in your tax paying card. Fill in all the basic details required alongwith the CMC no. and submit your complaint. You will get a feedback on your complaint within few days. You can choose mode of feedback such as post, phone or email.

The complaint is attended promptly and the feedback is given to us immediately. So do not waste time and energy by physically going to the department of Chennai metro for airing your grieviance; file your complaint online and relax!

MRTS

MRTS (MASS RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM)

One of the latest developments in Chennai is the Mass Rapid Transit System populary known as MRTS. It is called as "Parakkum rail" in tamil. As the population of Chennai is swelling day by day mass transport systems are getting popular. MRTS is a suburban train service (Electric Multiple Unit) run mostly on an elevated structure. It covers a distance of 27 kms from Chennai Beach to Velacherry, with the following 17 stations:-

Chennai Beach
Chennai Fort
Park Town
Chintadripet
Chepauk
Thiruvallikeni
Light House
Thirumayilai
Mandaiveli
Greenways Road
Kotturpuram
Kasthurba Nagar
Indira Nagar
Thiruvanmiyur
Taramani
Perungudi
Velacherry


The whole project was planned in three phases. Two phases have been completed and the third phase between Velacherry and St.Thomas Mount is incomplete. The network is operated by Southern Railway, a zone of Indian Railways. The distance between Chennai Beach and Velacherry is covered in 40 minutes, whereas it may take nearly 2 hours to cover the same distance during peak hours on road. Each station has a bus bay to link the Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) buses. Common ticketing is planned for a later stage. Monthly seasons, Children and students concession are available.