Bus names will change and companies will have new
identities. But the buses themselves will remain the same. Instead of
introducing e-ticketing for fare collection, the existing illegal waybill
system will continue. Effective arrangements for hiring drivers on fixed
salaries and distributing dividends among owners are also not being introduced.
Yet these were the very changes the bus route rationalization initiative was
designed to bring about. Five years after the failure of the experimen...