Though, during every festival the government makes announcements that none of the bus services must increase their rates from normal prices, every time none follow the government rules, and rise their prices to humongous levels, and charge huge fares than normal rates. These increased price rates can be seen easily even via cell phone apps of the companies.
People have always demanded governments to look into this price rise that goes to huge levels during festive seasons. Just a look at the prices of Omni bus services during Sunday, Monday from Chennai to Tirunelveli can be seen as a sample for proving this. A Mercedes Benz semi sleeper multi axle bus has a fare of 1850, and a sleeper AC bus has a fare of 1950, and another popular bus service has AC sleeper service for 1850, and one other service has a fare of 2250.
Only few services charge nominal price between 900 to 100 rupees. But post Diwali the price is usually just 800 rupees. Thus it has yet again been proved how private bus services do daylight robbery during festive seasons.
