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Resentment against hike in bus fare mounting in Bhopal

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NK SINGH Though a Govt. directive has frustrated the earlier efforts of the MPSRTC to increase the city bus fares by as much as 300 per cent, the public resent even the 25 per cent hike. It is "totally unjust, uncalled for and arbitrary", this is the consensus that has emerged from an opinion conducted by "Commoner" among a cross-section of politicians, public men, trade union leaders, and last but not least, the common bus travelling public. However, a section of the people held, that an average passenger would not grudge a slight pinche in his pocket provided the MPSRTC toned up its services. But far from being satisfactory, the MPSRTC-run city bus service in the capital is an endless tale of woe. Hours of long waiting, over-crowding people clinging to window panes frequent breakdowns, age-old fleet of buses, unimaginative routes and the attitude of passengers one can be patient only when he is sure to get into the next bus are some of the ills plaguing the city b...
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Mr N. K. Singh is a journalist with four decades of experience in the print media. He was the Resident Editor of Hindustan Times and Indian Express and State Head of Dainik Bhaskar.
He was for 14 years with India Today, where he worked as an Associate Editor.
He has worked with Nai Dunia, Peoples Samachar, The Hitavada, Secular Democracy and Pratipaksh.
During his long career, Mr Singh has written extensively. His articles and reports have appeared in several prestigious journals and newspapers like Economic & Political Weekly, Times of India, Seminar, Mainstream, Frontier, Far Eastern Economic Review, Illustratred Weekly of India, Sunday, Ravivar and Jansatta.
He has also authored three booklets on communal issue.
Mr Singh wrote commentary for a film on Bhopal gas tragedy produced by BBC. He was also associated as a journalist with three other documentaries produced by BBC and Granada TV on Bhopal gas tragedy. One of these documentaries won a gold at New York Film Festival.
Mr Singh has worked in New Delhi, Rajasthan and Gujarat, although Bhopal happens to be his base, his karmabhoomi, since 1974.
This website is an attempt to capture some of his work in print media, TV and digital space. It takes care to give hyperlinks so that readers may navigate to other digital properties for better understanding as well as for reference.
This website carries the hallmark of a Print Journalist -- Credibility.
You may contact NK Singh on nksexpress@gmail.com

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