Mumbai: Fliers at the city airport can breathe easy, the number of touting incidents has by gone down by more than half over the past six months. The reason for this is the implementation of the coupon system for pre-paid taxi booking, the police said.
As per police records, earlier, the average number of touts booked at the airport used to be around 30-35 per month. “The numbers have definitely gone down by half since the introduction of the (coupon) system,” said assistant commissioner of police (airport division) Madhukar Sankhe.
In August, Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL), the operator of the city airport, in consultation with the traffic police initiated a system by which a passenger booking a pre-paid cab was given the number of the cab in which s/he would travel.
Though the initiative went down well with most taxi drivers, security agencies and passengers, certain sections of cabbies resisted the move.
Read News In full 01/01/14 Shahkar Abidi/Daily News & Analysis
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