BMTC officials say that more electric and diesel buses will be inducted soon to reduce overcrowding. Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) is planning to introduce more diesel and electric buses. The officials from BMTC say that the tender has been floated. Sunitha Jain, Public Relations Officer (PRO) at BMTC said that they have issued […]
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There is also a decrease in the number of schedules operated. The number of staff in the Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) has seen a decrease since the past few years. According to data from BMTC website, the number of staff as on Sept. 09, 2023 is 28,894 as against 34,114 staff in 2017-18. Channappa, a BMTC driver said […]
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QR ticketing in BMTC buses delayed as the transport corporation fails to provide Paytm soundboxes. Issuing of daily bus tickets through Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is getting delayed as the Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) has failed to provide Paytm soundboxes to Volvo AC buses. A BMTC official said, “We planned to provide Paytm soundboxes […]
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Karnataka has the third highest number of road accident cases across the nation; hit and run cases constitute half of such cases in Bangalore. Karnataka recorded 34,647 road accident cases in 2021, the third highest across the nation. Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh stood first and second respectively. Raja Laxmi, a 33-year-old dance teacher lost […]
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BMTC has laid the groundwork for the relaunch of its mobile application. Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) officials are working on the procedures of installation of live trackers in its buses. The BMTC mobile application is not working since 2021. A Priyanka, System manager, BMTC, said that the official application to track the live location […]
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Despite the demand from commuters, more buses cannot be released due to lack of drivers said official. The Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) is facing shortage ofbus drivers. The data from BMTC shows there is a shortage of 256 drivers as of November 2022 and due to this the number of buses functioning in the […]
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Insufficient number of buses in the city adds to the woes of the daily commuters. The city has only one bus for over 1900 people. Bengaluru does not have enough buses to accommodate its daily commuters. The number of buses in the city is insufficient and is causing problems for its commuters. The Bengaluru Metropolitan […]
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The BMTC bus driver is said to be absconding. By Manya Saxena and Supriya Mehta A Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) bus ran over a man as his scooter skidded on the slippery Mysuru Road, near a private school, around 8 am Wednesday. Venkatesh, an auto driver, said that the man was riding a white […]
Continue ReadingStatistics show that the construction of bus shelters was started in 2018 by Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) but commuters are still waiting in the sun and the rain. Jyoti would always take the bus home—it was her favorite way to travel the streets of Bengaluru. The people she would meet and the things she […]
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BMTC has introduced only two new buses so far this year; about 19 percent of the total number of functional buses are not roadworthy. Shivani Verma Out of the total 6,490 operational vehicles by the state-run Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC)1,234 buses which are more than 11-years-old or have clocked 8.5 lakh km are still […]
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