As the city buses are not insured, Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) bears the burden of paying accident claims to passengers who get injured in bus accident. Vivek Kumar M A substantial part of BMTC’s revenue flows towards the motor accident claim cases against bus accidents, because the city’s most widely used public transport is […]
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Both BBMP and BMTC are walking away from the responsibility of the defunct Kengeri bus-stand. By Labani Mahanandy The old Kengeri bus stand has now become a dumping yard for garbage from surrounding localities. The nasty vapours from the piled up waste annoy the passers-by. The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanangara Palike (BBMP) and the Bangalore Metropolitan […]
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Cab drivers have been booked for more than 45,000 traffic violations in September 2019. They blame the intense pressure to complete more trips a day. Nikita Arora Cab drivers in the city are being regularly booked for traffic violations. They, however, feel that app-based cab companies are to blame since they put them under pressure […]
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In emergencies, poor patients end up paying out of their pockets. By Jagriti Parakh With only 39 private hospitals in Bengaluru district empanelled under the Integrated Ayushman Bharat-Arogya Karnataka (ABAK) scheme, poor patients, who visit non-empanelled hospitals during emergencies, end up paying out of their pockets. Chetan Kumar, Monitoring and Evaluation Department, Suvarna Arogya Suraksha […]
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