Prepaid autos from airport, station and bus stand soon

NAGPUR: Regional Transport Office (RTO) and traffic police have decided to jointly start prepaid autorickshaw counters at airport, main and Ajni railway stations, and MSRTC bus-stands at Ganeshpeth and Mor Bhavan. At railway station the booths will be at both the gates.
This decision was taken in a meeting of RTO, traffic police and auto unions, with railways, MSRTC and Mihan India Limited officials (MIL) officials.At Nagpur railway station, the pre-paid stand will likely begin from May 1. City RTO, Sarjerao Shelke and DCP (Traffic) Jeevraj Dabhade claimed that railway authorities will be giving no-objection certificate for pre-paid booths on Friday and booths may get going in about a week's time.
Shelke said, "Regional Transport Authority (RTA) has fixed the fare slabs for every destination in consultation with auto unions and traffic department officials. The terms of agreement for prepaid auto service are also ready. We are just waiting for green signal from railway authorities about installation of booths inside their premises".
The air passengers who do not have own transport will get a major relief as travelling to and from the city airport by cool cab or taxi is still an expensive affair. Despite presence of a 'prepaid taxi service', not authorized by RTO or the traffic police, passengers are forced to pay exorbitant fares to cool cabs and private taxi operators.
Shelke said airport authorities had green-signalled a pre-paid booth at airport. As per the RTO guidelines, taxi owners will have to charge Rs 16.25 for the first kilometre and Rs 9.25 for each subsequent kilometre. Similarly, autorickshaws will have to charge Rs 11 for the first kilometre and Rs 8 for every subsequent kilometer for every destination. The auto fares will be revised after the one-member committee appointed for the puposes submits its report by July 13, Shelke added.