KSRTC to run special buses for Dasara holidays
Bengaluru, October 16: Along with the existing Vegaduta, Karnataka Vaibhava, Rajahamsa, Airavata and Airavata Club Class bus service, the KSRTC has decided to run special bus service of additional buses from various places of the state and country to witness Mysuru Dasara festival during the holidays.
In a press release, the KSRTC said that during Dasara holidays, the corporation is running around 2,500 additional buses from Bengaluru to other places from October 17 to 22. These buses would start from Kempegowda Bus Stand, Mysuru Road Bus Stand and Shantinagar Bus Stand. From October 20-21, these buses would ply from other places to Bengaluru. These buses would ply to Dharmasthala, Kukke Subramanya, Sringeri, Horanadu, Shivamogga, Madikeri, Mangaluru, Davangere, Gokarna, Kollur, Hubballi, Dharwad, Belagavi, Vijayapura, Karwar, Ballary, Hosapete, Kalaburagi, Raichur and other places and Hyderabad, Chennai, Ooty, Kodaikanal, Salem, Tiruchirappalli, Pudukottai, Madurai, Panaji, Shiradi, Poona, Ernakulam, Palghat, and other places.
From Mysuru Road Bus Stand, total 150 buses would ply to Mysuru and surrounding places like Chamundi Hills, KRS, Brindavana, Srirangapatna, Nanjanagudu and other places and another 150 vehicles to connect Madikeri, Mandya, Malavalli, HD Kote, Chamarajanagar, Hunasur, KR Nagar, Gundlupete and other places, the press release said.
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BMTC collects over Rs 19 lakh as fine from those travelling without tickets, occupying ladies seat
Bengaluru (PTI): The Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) has collected over Rs 19 lakh as a penalty from 10,069 passengers who were penalised for travelling without tickets and occupying seats exclusively reserved for ladies in the last three months, officials said on Thursday.
The checking staff of BMTC have intensified checking of buses operated in and around Bengaluru City to detect ticketless travelling by passengers, they said.
According to BMTC, during the months of August, September and October, the checking staff checked 57,219 trips and penalised 8,891 ticketless passengers by collecting Rs 17,96,030 as penalty and 5,268 cases were booked against conductors for their dereliction of duty.
During the same period, they have also penalised 1,178 male passengers for occupying seats exclusively reserved for lady passengers and imposed fines by collecting Rs 1,17,800 in accordance with the KMV (Karnataka Motor Vehicle) Rules of the MV Act of 1988.
"In total, during the months of August, September and October, 10,069 passengers were penalised and Rs 19,13,830 was collected," the BTMC officials stated.
