More than two weeks after the roll out of Shakti – the first guarantee of providing free travel for women in State transport corporation buses, augmentation of the existing fleet in Mysuru KSRTC division has become the need of the hour with daily passenger load almost touching three lakh since the launch.
Almost all buses operated by the division were running full; some were running exceeding their carrying capacity to deal with the rush of passengers, especially women travelers.
If the services on the inter-city and inter-State routes are somehow being managed with the available fleet, though with a lot of planning, it has become challenging for the division to operate the intra-city services with passenger load crossing 100 percent and the number of commuters continuing to rise.
