I am not woman to budge to pressure: MLA Lakshmi Hebbalkar
Bengaluru, October 28: “I work as per my consciousness. I am not a woman to yield to the pressure of any influential person”, said KPCC Women Wing president and MLA Lakshmi Hebbalkar.
Speaking to reporters at Mudhol town on Sunday, she said that it was not fair to say that she was removed from the post of KPCC Women Wing president. After she became the MLA, she has written a letter to the KPCC to choose another person to her post. After she became the KPCC women wing president, he has groomed 20 persons eligible to that post. She has sent them to the interview. Among them, five were shortlisted and shortly, a right candidate would be appointed in her place, she clarified.
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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.
