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Facility to book SETC tickets in 5 private websites

Posted on: 09/Dec/2018 11:02:59 AM
The facility to book tickets for the SETC buses is to be introduced shortly in 5 private-owned websites shortly.

Tamil Nadu State Express Transport Corporation operates around 1080 express buses from various cities including Chennai, Trichy, Tirunelveli, Madurai, Tirupathi, Bengaluru, etc.

As new buses were not procured and given for operation, the corporation kept running the old buses to a large extent.

In this situation, recently, 100 hi-tech featured buses have been included in the fleet 40 buses with the air-conditioning facility, 10 buses with the facility of a toilet, and 50 deluxe buses.

Meanwhile, SETC was exploring the possibility to introduce the advance booking facility for booking these buses in advance on the websites owned by private agencies as well apart from the official website of SETC.

A decision has now been taken to introduce the facility of advance booking for SETC buses in 5 websites owned by the private agencies.

The SETC officials explained in this regard that with the introduction of the hi-tech buses as explained above, the number of passengers travelling daily has increased to 80000. It has been planned to add 450 new hi-tech buses in the next phase. Most of them will be deluxe or air-conditioned buses.

Apart from the official SETC website, the following 5 websites (redbus, busindia, makemytrip,paytm, goibibo) will be introduced with the facility to book in advance for the TNSETC express buses..

The list of buses being operated to Nagercoil, Tirunelveli, Coimbatore, Bengaluru, Madurai, etc., will also be included in this facility.

With this operation, the number of passengers will go up thus earning additional revenue for the transport corporation.

It is especially expected the passengers will prefer to avoid the omnibuses which charge more and fleece the passengers especially during the festival and holiday seasons and to prefer travel in SETC express buses.

It is worth noting that there would be no additional charges while booking advance tickets in the above 5 private websites. Further, the fare would remain as fixed by the government and there would not be any additional charges.