Only for Bread & Butter

This is an incident, on my way to Rishikesh to Delhi by Utter Pradesh Govt. Bus Transport Service. I catch the bus from Rishikesh bus depot for Delhi on 4 pm to catch train from Delhi at 11 p.m. . The bus driver was driving the bus very slowly, though he is not taking care of hurdles and small rupture on road. Some passengers advised him to drive properly and to little bit increase the speed of bus to reach Delhi in time. On this he was replied angrily and told that he has 10 years of experience of driving and he has no need of any suggestion. All passenger realizes his rudeness and they keep quite to avoid any hard talks. During driving all the way he kept continue to making jokes and talks with the Conductor (Ticket Collector) who was resting behind him, which put off him to concentrate on road.

We all were shattered when he put in the bus on wrong side on National Highway were clear demarcation of Right Side and Left Side. All passengers were not understand why he is doing this, we asked him, he told to keep quite and not to disturb otherwise accident will occur, once again we keep quite.

The rider of other vehicles who are coming on their right direction got disturbed because of this wrong side vehicle (Bus). One car driver not understand, how to drive his car against the wrong sided vehicle and he stopped his car in front of Bus, he scolded the bus driver for driving the Bus on wrong side. We all passengers were frightened in thought to be caught by an accident. Driving the Bus on wrong side near about 1 KM on National Highway, at last bus Driver stopped the bus on one Panjabai Dhaba (Restaurant) though there is one another Dhaba (Restaurant) on the right side, now the puzzle was solved why driver drive the bus on wrong way by taking the risk of his own as well as passengers life.

It was came to known that Dhaba owner provide full meal, liquor and some fixed money to Driver and Conductor (Ticket Collector) in form of commission, to stop the bus on his Dhaba. We all passenger were discussed that only for meal and some money how can he put the life of all passengers in danger? Some people talks to book the complaint against driver, some people told that it has no use, this will go on, no one can stop this business and we were entered in the bus to catch our destination.