Last night I was at Tambaram railway station to receive one of our guest. It took nearly 30 minutes for me to take a couple of platform tickets. There were more than 300 people standing on 3 queue to get tickets - platform , local train and the outstationones. There were more than 50% of the counters closed. No Person in the railway department is bothered to open the closed counter to speed up the process. In one of the queue in which I was standing was very slow due to the slowness of the machine.
The lady in the counter uses a separate calculator to find out how much she needs to return to the person who gave a Rs 500 /= for a 270/- + ticket. Can’t we upgrade the software to do this job. This will cut short a lot a time. I believe we have this in every other software used in super market today. The best part is that I gave three two rupee coins to take a couple of platform tickets which costs Rs 3/- each and told her that I need two tickets. She pushed the Coins towards her coin tray and asked , “You want one ticket right?”. It was already 8 PM. I am not sure how long she is working in the counter or she is not interested in the job itself.
There was a machine which can provide local and Platform tickets. But one need to use only railway card to purchase tickets. Can’t we make the machine work with the Credit card and coins? That will reduce a lot of manual work and also reduce the waiting time.
MahindraXUV is a great success for the company. Mahindra is opening its second round of booking from today. The booking is opened from Jan 25 to Feb 03 , 2011. The draw will be done on Feb 15, 2011. Itis going to be a lucky draw for the second round of XUV Booking. Mahindra is planning to take only 7500 bookings out of the total this time which will be delivered over a period of 4 months. One of my friend bids for a W8 model.On searching over the web , I don’t find any information for the bookings that cannot make it in the draw. While talking to the sales person in Chennai, we understood that we need try our luck in the next opening which may be the same lot process. If a person is not that lucky enough, then his dream of holding a XUV will never come true.
People wait for cars more than 6 to 8 months after booking. Mahindra should use this draw to select all the bookings and assign them the dates of delivery even if it is more than a year. You can refund the money [80K] for those who have their delivery dates more than Mahindra’s so called 4 months. The date ofre booking [payment of the 80K] / delivery can be intimated for those who are going to get their car after 4 months. I believe more than 95% of the bookings will be from people who already own a car. People will wait for their chance knowing the dates. This will also give Mahindra an oppurtunity to open the booking after this lot on the first come first serve basis who will be ordered next to the whole lot.
I landed on a document on Scribd for Sanskrit. It required a authenticated session to download the document. I tried the facebook authentication for the purpose. It happens that I got around 10 followers on scribd within an hour. I have never published any document and nor going to do any in future. To my surprise all my followers are having 0 documents published and have a lot of subscription and following a lot of people. I don’t see any value add on this relationship. It added me some work of deleting all mails that got landed on my inbox. Scribd automatically made me follow 243 people who are my friends in facebook. Really a Stupid way to do things.
Mails / Connections which has got zero values to either party.
Traveled in the MTC A/C Volvo for the first time from Ambattur Estate to Velachey distance of around 18 Km at the evening peak hour. It took around one and half hour at the cost of Rs 30 /= per person much more than cost of diesel for the same distance. A row of seats at the center was fold able to accommodate more people during peak hours.
The seats can be made a couple of inches longer for better comfort. I am not sure how these buses are used for the long distance like Trichy [around 300+ Km.].
The A/C vent just above the passenger head on every seat at the window side has a control to change the direction of the flow. It should have added with a stopper.
The bus was maintained in a good condition and the travel was comfortable.
Recently bought a new Fiat Linea which comes with an Microsoft Windows powered Blue&Me system. I used a Samsung GT -S5230 and a Nokia 5310 mobile with the system.
Nokia has a good Usability. After the first time paring of the handset, Nokia never asked me any questions for connecting to the Blue&Me. On the contrary, Samsung asked me [Yes./No] questions for the connection , paring and copying [ linking ] of phone books every time I switch on my car. I need to answer two yes for the mobile to get connected and another yes to synchronize the phone book. Tough to answer these questions while driving.
