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To streamline tracking of commercialized assets and gross crossed its network, Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) is acceptable to present the Commercial Asset Management Platform (CAMP).
According to officials, the integer strategy volition centralise information connected non-fare gross sources specified arsenic commercialized stalls, unfastened spaces, advertisement spaces, towers and different assets. BMTC, which owns assets crossed the city, faces a situation arsenic gross streams are dispersed crossed depots and zones, making broad monitoring difficult.
Speaking to The Hindu, a elder BMTC authoritative said that the projected level is intended to bring each specified information nether 1 system. “BMTC intends to deploy a centralised tracking exertion that shows each the gross generated by rentals from commercialized stalls, unfastened spaces, towers, ATM counters and advertisements, on with request and postulation presumption astatine the organisational level, with drill-down entree from the Central Office to depots and idiosyncratic assets,” the authoritative said.
Transparency and efficiency
The CAMP strategy volition alteration BMTC to way not lone however overmuch gross is generated, but besides place gaps successful the postulation and utilisation of assets. The authoritative said that by integrating information crossed levels from cardinal offices to idiosyncratic depots, the level is expected to amended transparency and ratio successful managing commercialized operations.
“The scope of the task includes development, implementation, and commissioning of the bundle platform, on with a mobile exertion and hosting services. The selected work supplier volition besides beryllium liable for maintaining the strategy and introducing modifications oregon further features arsenic required implicit time,” authoritative explained
“The nonsubjective is to deploy IT tools successful the champion imaginable mode to optimise ratio and trim operational costs, portion continuing to supply reliable and economical transport services,” the authoritative added.
Non-traffic revenue
BMTC, which operates services crossed urban, suburban, and agrarian areas successful and astir Bengaluru, relies not lone connected rider fares but besides connected commercialized utilisation of its properties and spaces to make further income. However, without a unified system, monitoring these gross streams successful existent clip has been difficult, according to officials.
The BMTC presently operates 6,158 buses, of which 1,027 are electric. During the 2023-24 fiscal year, the corp generated ₹811 crore successful non-traffic gross from sources specified arsenic onshore leasing, renting retired abstraction astatine autobus terminals, commercialized stalls, offices and parking areas, arsenic good arsenic advertisements connected the rear panels of buses.
