Fake tickets worth Rs 1 crore sold at Delhi Auto Expo 2012

Fake tickets of Rs 1 crore in worth were sold by the unidentified gangs deceiving the government and the organisers giving a reason to be branded as one of the unorganised Motor shows of the world. After a repeated bad experience even this season, the organisers will have to come better prepared for the next Auto Expo in 2014. The 11th Indian Auto Expo has finally concluded and now it’s the time to mull, what went wrong during this season. The outpouring crowd is no wonder, for the Expo is the largest in the continent. But the uncalled entries into the automobile exhibition due to the fake tickets is definitely not done.

The organisers have learnt a lesson or two from the recent experience. They even began to toy with the idea of allowing the general public from the day four against the third day entry as the focus was more diverted to controlling the crowd than on the business participants and the big shots who travelled across the oceans to be a part of this wonderful event. The venue for the 2014 Auto Expo is also being weighed to move to a different location either out of New Delhi or at least not Pragati Maidan anymore due to the lack of enough area to accommodate the crowd.

Another point raised after the Auto Expo 2012 is that, the organisers might defy the conventional dates for the Auto exhibition and push it to the month of February, which had always  been held during the period of January 3rd  -11th, ever since the conception. The Auto Expo fever in India began to catch up since last season in 2010 when the organisers had a big time trouble controlling the visitors in flow which recorded 1.2 million in number only to be second in volume after Shanghai Motor show. As a part of preparations, Rajive Kaul of the organising committee  did mention their well formulated plans to restrict the crowd to 100,000 visitors in number, but despite their tight preparations, they fell victim to clever tricksters who beat the organisers and  managed to sell the fake tickets.