50% KTMB discount for lower income group


The cards can be picked up during name KTMB stations.
KUALA LUMPUR: Locals who want to travel during half-price upon Keretapi Tanah Melayu Bhd's (KTMB) Komuter trains can right away do so through a Komuter 1Malaysia card.
Launched during KL Sentral today, a label can be picked up during name KTMB stations by Malaysians earning a monthly income of RM3,000 or less.
KTMB business executive vice-president, Lt Kol Sarbini Tijan, pronounced which a pierce was directed during those living in a Klang Valley.
"This is to inspire people to get upon a train upon a monthly day-to-day basis," he told reporters during KL Sentral today.
He combined which a 50% bonus would usually be accessible from November 1 this year to October 31, 2013.
The pierce was originally announced by Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak after he presented a new Budget 2013 in Parliament.
Sarbini pronounced which a label could be picked up during a KL Sentral, Kepong Sentral, Tanjung Malim, Subang Jaya, Sentral, Bangi as well as Sungai Gadut stations.
Potential field were asked to move a duplicate of their MyKad as well as a Komuter 1Malaysia form, which can be found upon KTMB's website.
The cards will be accessible from October twenty-two to November 21. After this period, any one who did not pick up them will have to return to normal equates to for travelling.
KTMB, however, did not say most about how it planned to stop those intending to take advantage of a offer.
"We ask all Malaysians to be responsible in this as well as believe which all Malaysians are great people as well as! won't m ake fake declarations [of their income]," he said.
Sarbini combined which KTMB had "means" to check if people were intrigue a system.
Asked if KTMB would seize cards of those suddenly incompetent for a discount, he pronounced which a company would use a own discretion.
Sarbini was additionally asked if a bonus would means a company to lose more, since KTMB's annual losses of about RM150 million.
To this, he pronounced which KTMB expected to get more ridership when a bonus was in place.
He pronounced which during a moment, usually 100,000 people took a Komuter trains each day, when optimal capacity was three times as much.
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