bangalore seats reserved for women will be ensured for them at least in bmtc buses the corporation is undertaking an intensive drive from monday to ensure that no male passengers occupy womens seats around 60 teams of personnel including women staff will be at work daily for three days to ensure seats for women as well as to detect ticketless travelling authorities have requested men not to occupy seats exclusively reserved for women when there are female passengers travelling in case a male passenger is found occupying the seat exclusively reserved for women he is liable to pay penalty of rs 100 as per rule 94 of kmv rules read with section 177 of mv act 1988 said a bmtc official similarly ticketless passengers are also required to pay penalty under section 178 of mv act 1988 the amount of penalty will be levied from the originating point to the place where the ticketless traveller gets caught to the extent of 10 times the ticket fare or rs 500 whichever is less therefore passengers are requested to travel in bmtc buses with valid ticketsday passmonthly pass to produce the same on demand made by checking staff and allow female passengers to occupy the seats exclusively reserved for female passengers said the official in case of conductors not issuing tickets despite payment of fare passengers can lodge a complaint at the following telephone email address bmtc call centre 1800 425 1663 bmtc control room 7760991399 7760991499 email id and control room at bmtcinfocom mobile numbers 7760991076 7760991078 7760991113