The State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has asked the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) to reconsider its decision to hire 250-odd buses by abandoning dozens of buses that remain idle during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Commission member K. Baijunath raised the demand considering the pleas of the KSRTC employees as well as Palakkad-based rights activist Raymant Antony.
Alleging that the KSRTC authorities had decided to hire private luxury buses to help some private players, Mr. Antony had said that the high-tech and low-floor buses of the KSRTC had run without any problems until the COVID-19 pandemic. “Allowing those buses to rust in KSRTC sheds will be suicidal,” he had said in a complaint.
