This is a Suo Motu Public Interest Litigation, initiated by this court based on a News Report in "Dinamani", a Tamil Daily, that the Tamil Nadu Contract Carriage Owners' Association had enhanced the individual fares for the passengers to travel in the contract carriages operated within the State of Tamil Nadu. The report further indicated that the Government of Tamil Nadu had instructed these operators to announce the individual fares for the passengers to travel in their contract carriages. The said report also stated that since different fares were collected by the operator, according to their whims and fancies, in order to maintain uniformity and consistency, this decision, by the Association fixing uniform individual fares, was taken applicable for the deepavali season between 27.10.2016 and 31.10.2016 and thereafter, the usual individual fares fixed by the contract carriage operators shall be collected. On going through the said news report, since it was felt by us that by fixing/enhancing the individual fares for the passengers to travel in these contract carriages, the contract carriage operators are practically operating these buses like stage carriages, we thought i