Mysore/Mysuru: The much-touted Intelligent Transport System (ITS) that Mysuru implemented in 2012 to bring in the much-needed efficiency and safety in public transport service is defunct now and a victim of an unintelligent or call it negligent and callous approach. However, the authorities of Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) cite a COVID excuse to…
Miraculous escape for passengers as KSRTC bus swerves into roadside ditch at Gopalaswamy Hill
July 12, 2021Gundlupet: Forty passengers, who were coming down the Gopalaswamy Hill after visiting the temple atop the hill, had a miraculous escape after the KSRTC bus in which they were coming down the hill slipped into a roadside ditch atop the hill yesterday. The KSRTC bus was ferrying the devotees to the foot of the hill,…
Inter-State bus service to Kerala to commence from July 12
July 10, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: With COVID-19 crisis easing in the past few days, the KSRTC will resume its inter-State bus services to Kerala from July 12. In a press release, the KSRTC Chief Traffic Manager at Bengaluru said that bus services to different destinations in Kerala from Bengaluru, Mysuru, Mangaluru, Tumakuru etc., will resume from July 12. However,…
Lack of passengers as KSRTC resumes inter-district service
June 28, 2021Only 100 city buses allowed to ply today No inter-State service for now Mysore/Mysuru: The Sub-Urban and City Bus Stands witnessed poor passenger traffic as the Mysuru City and Rural Divisions of KSRTC resumed its services this morning after a gap of two months. The KSRTC had suspended its services (both city and rural) on…
KSRTC incurred losses of over Rs. 4,000 crore due to lockdown, strike: Laxman Savadi
June 28, 2021Belagavi: Transport Department has incurred losses of over Rs. 4,000 crore in the last 15 months due to COVID-19 situation and employees’ strike, Deputy Chief Minister Laxman Savadi said here on Saturday. After the first wave of COVID-19, KSRTC staff went on strike and by the time it ended, the second wave of the pandemic…
KSRTC buses to hit roads from tomorrow
June 27, 2021City buses, Mysuru-Bengaluru trips to resume No mask, no travelling; sanitisation after each trip Mysore/Mysuru: After a gap of two months, Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) buses are ready to hit the streets in Mysuru District from tomorrow (Monday). All inter-city and inter-district bus services will resume. For now, there will be no inter-State…
No operation of KSRTC buses in Mysuru
June 21, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Even as the Government announced unlock 2.0 coming into effect from today (June 21) allowing public transport, there is no KSRTC bus service in Mysuru as the lockdown restrictions announced on June 11 has been extended till July 5 in the district, without any relaxations due to high COVID positivity rate. Mysuru is the…
KSRTC is not Kerala’s yet
June 5, 2021No final orders passed; it’s just whistling in the air, says Karnataka Bengaluru: Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) has clarified that media reports saying that the Central Trade Mark Registry has allowed Kerala to use KSRTC are factually incorrect and that no final order has been passed in the appeal. Taking to twitter as…
Karnataka to explore legal options on trademark issue with Kerala
June 4, 2021Bengaluru: The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) has decided to explore all legal options and challenge the recent order of the Central Registrar of Trademarks in favour of Kerala Road Transport Corporation to exclusively use the acronym. In a statement here, Deputy Chief Minister Laxman Savadi, who is also Minister for Transport, said: “We…
Karnataka seeks new name as Brand KSRTC becomes Kerala’s
June 3, 2021Karnataka retains Gandaberunda emblem Bengaluru: KSRTC (Kerala State Road Transport Corporation) became Kerala’s own brand, legally and truly and Karnataka cannot repurpose the brand — Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation — any longer. Trade Marks Registry has certified that the abbreviation KSRTC, logo and the name ‘Aanavandi’ shall belong to Kerala Road Transport Corporation. But…














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