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APSRTC introduces yearly student pass
The ordeal of the students in getting the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) concessional pass is coming to an end with the state run transport corporation decided to introduce issuing of yearly pass to the students avoiding them the trouble of visiting the RTC bus station every month to get the concessional pass to commute to their educational institutions for study.
Tirupati: The ordeal of the students in getting the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) concessional pass is coming to an end with the state run transport corporation decided to introduce issuing of yearly pass to the students avoiding them the trouble of visiting the RTC bus station every month to get the concessional pass to commute to their educational institutions for study.
Disclosing this here at a media conference on Wednesday, APSRTC Tirupati Regional Manager (RM) Timmadi Chengal Reddy said that the yearly pass will replace the monthly pass to the students saving them the time and inconvenience while the issuing of quarterly concessional pass to the students will remain.
The issuing of student passes will start in the district from June 10, Chengal Reddy said, adding that adequate arrangements were made to ensure the issuing of passes hassle free to the students.
There are 89,606 students availing RTC concessional pass including 31,166 free passes and 58,440 concessional passes in Chittoor district, Reddy said adding that special service ‘Badi Bus’ will be operated in the routes where more number of students are commuting.
In this connection, Reddy said that the RTC is taking up a drive to increase the number of beneficiaries availing concessional pass meant for differently-abled keeping in view of only about 25,000 are availing the facility in the district against more than one lakh differently-abled, as per official survey. RTC is ready to conduct special camps in association with the differently-abled associations and also arrange issuing of passes in the villages, if there are more than ten beneficiaries, he explained.
Answering a question on augmentation of bus services, he said 7 AC buses to various places from here including Vijayawada (4) Bengaluru (2) and Chennai recently added while one more AC bus each in the same route will soon be operated to cope with the increased passenger flow. As many as 165 new buses will be inducted to operate on the ghat road replacing the old ones Reddy informed.
The region has recorded Rs 60 crore earning in May this year which is highest so far in the region but the diesel price hike proving a burden he said informing that the additional burden due to the recent increase in the diesel price was more than Rs 3 lakh daily and would be around Rs 12 crore annually.
