‘RTC services in Hyderabad to be improved to 50 per cent’

Hyderabad, Nov 15 : The Telangana government on Sunday decided to increase the services of the state-run Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) in Hyderabad to 50 per cent.
The public transport body had been operating 25 per cent services since September 25 when it resumed the operations after a gap of six months due to Covid-19 pandemic.
At a review meeting, Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao directed TSRTC to increase bus services in Hyderabad to 50 per cent as it would help more people from the districts to travel to Hyderabad and back.
KCR, as the Chief Minister is popularly known, said that the TSRTC was back on the track and was on road to earn profits when the corona pandemic hit. He, however, vowed to revive TSRTC.
TSRTC officials informed the Chief Minister that due to the pandemic and with people preferring to use the private vehicles, occupancy rate of the RTC buses came down drastically which resulted in the Corporation incurring heavy losses.
The CM instructed the officials to take appropriate decisions and get over the difficulties created by Corona. He wanted officials to analyse on what measures to be taken to make the RTC back to its pre-Covid situation.