BMTC Buses without Conductors

I am a daily traveler. This post is with regards to bus number 171. I have seen many of these running without conductors daily between Koramangala signal and Adugodi. But I do believe that there exist many other such buses and they complete their route in similar fashion everyday. Anyone more enlightened is welcome to put forth the reasons behind such practice.

Nowhere on the earth (its part which I have visited :D) I have seen buses running without conductors and with driver taking care of their jobs ! BMTC runs several such buses in Bangalore. I am not aware of the reason. Don't they have enough number of conductors ? or are they trying to train bus drivers in multitasking ? Whatever be the reason but the situation is definitely alarming.

I have seen a few drivers in such buses tend to drive while distributing tickets among passengers. They lose their focus on driving while doing that. This is a very very dangerous practice which must be stopped right away as it can lead to serious accidents. Among other problems, these buses stop too much at each bus stop because drivers take enough time to distribute tickets. BMTC also loses lot of revenue because many passengers deceive them easily by quickly going past the driver seat when they get on board. I hope BMTC is thinking to resolve this problem either by recruiting more people to do the job or by taking such buses off roads.

Traveling by Air: A First timer's experience

I have fantasized it for long enough - traveling by air back to my home. Finally the day came on 20th february when i boarded DN-606 from Bangalore HAL airport to fly to Jaipur. I had booked my tickets some fifteen days back, thanks to a very attractive facility provided by Air Deccan to get the tickets booked through post offices. Indira Nagar post office system was out of order so I had to book it through the Koramangala Post Office and what a mess that person created !! He clicked 'print' before the page had loaded. And as was expected nothing came out of the printer.
Oh did i mention- the post office had been using a 1942 model ( the man himself told me) dot matrix printer for printing the flight tickets ! Well ! somehow I got the tickets when a wiser man refreshed and clicked print after the page had loaded. It had to pay more than i had anticipated. Coming back to the main day, flight DN-606 was scheduled to depart at 10.15 hrs. i arrived at the airport by 7.30 and checked with the Deccan counter about the status of the flight. flight was on schedule but check-in was going to start only by 8.15. Right at the starting time I checked in and got a window seat (5A). I also wanted to experience the baggage handling so i gave my only baggage as a check-in luggage. Everything went smooth, from check-in to security check to boarding. It was a good new A320 aircraft and cabin crew was nice and helping. Flight got delayed by half an hour in mumbai so we landed in Jaipur little later than expected. Jaipur airport seemed to be much smaller and baggages were on conveyor instantly ! My cousin had come to receive me.
Well ! The main thing i wanted to post is about the return journey via DN-605 from Jaipur to Bangalore. Even this flight was good enough. Flight landed almost on time and Deccan exceeded my expectation. But after arriving at Bangalore airport, i moved to an empty conveyor to receive my baggage. But Deccan announced that baggages were available at another conveyor which had already been supplying baggages for a Kingfisher flight ! There was a lot of rush and confusion. i received my bag after waiting for almost half an hour. No Body cross checked my baggage with my boarding pass !! It effectively meant that anybody could have got away with any baggage of their liking.
But apart from that one issue my travel was quite comfortable and I enjoyed it.