Delhi Transport Corporation incurs a loss of about Rs 1,000 crore annually. Its rickety and unreliable fleet is an embarrassment for the capital. Yet, in a bizarre instance of enforcing accountability and making one pay, it has been fighting a case against a former employee for causing it a loss of five paise, 41 years ago! It is anybody's guess how much the corporation has spent from the public exchequer in keeping the man, who is now 70, down.
The man at the receiving end is Ranvir Singh, a conductor, who faced a flying squad of ticket-checkers in 1973 in a bus going towards Mayapuri. The overzealous checkers found that he had charged a woman passenger only 10 paise for a trip when the actual fare was 15 paise. Singh realized the enormity of this lapse when the squad decided that he had cheated the corporation and had been negligent.
A departmental inquiry was conducted and the verdict delivered. Singh was found guilty of causing a loss of 5 paise to the public exchequer and his summary dismissal from service was ordered in 1976 on the grounds that he was a repeat offender.
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