Manipulation with advance tickets

WITH the Eid-ul-Fitr still more than a week and a half away, most tickets, on various inter-district bus routes appear to have been sold out. The launch operators had, even before formally starting the sale of advance tickets announced that these were exhausted. At the time of writing, tickets for long distance travelling were only available for the evening of July 28, meaning with a little, if any, lead time for the Eid.
These have given rise to a number allegations: First, tickets were held back at the behest of syndicates to be sold at the black market at exorbitant rates; second, slow issue of tickets was observed by intending purchasers with the alleged motive of “keeping  these for VIPs”; and third, higher fares were charged on the pretext that the transports will have few or no passengers on the return journeys.
Then consider the conditions of the highways and the inevitable long tailbacks in prospect which make reaching home for Eid uncertain. You  thus realise that advance booking must be brought forward by three weeks at least, in addition to the two weeks' window offered for sale of tickets. Clearly, the timing has to be linked to an expansion in the number of transports and an increase in frequency of trips. In catering for such contingencies, the concerned authorities must think and plan ahead to put things in place in good time for the festivals.