HISTORY
Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation
Availability of adequate, safe and comfortable passenger Transport facility is a very important index of economic development of any Country. Public Transport provides the vital connectivity to far flung areas in a developing society. The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation was established in August,1961 under the provisions of Road Transport Corporation Act 1950 with the objective of providing “adequate, efficient, economic and properly coordinated road transport services”. In this endeavor, the KSRTC has positioned itself with a name for reliability and safety.
Three corporations viz BMTC, Bangalore from 15-08-1997, NWKRTC, Hubli from 01-11-1997, NEKRTC, Gulburga from 01-10-2000 were carved out, on a regional basis, with KSRTC doing interstate operations and covering Southern Karnataka.
Restructured STU Operations
Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation continues to coordinate the following matters:
1. Cadre management of Supervisory levels
2. Major purchases for the corporations
3. Integrated Traffic Management and Operations
5.Facilities To Passengers
To attract passengers to its buses, KSRTC has adopted the following measures:
- Freedom passes allowing un-restricted travel for one week duration and monthly seasonal passes.
- 10% discount on return journey fare when they book both onward and return journey tickes simultaneously.
- Group travel facility of 5% concession in fare when there are more than 4 passengers.
- Grameena sarige through introduction of new buses to villages
- KSRTC also operates Casual Contracts.
KSRTC is the first State Transport Undertaking to introduce computerised passenger seat reservation systempasswengers will avail the facility.
KSRTC has deployed Electronic Ticketing Machines on its routes. These ETMs are first of their kind in the nation as they are programmed for capturing kms., HSD, Inspection details etc. The ETMs are very much liked by the conductors as they are finding their job easy.
KSRTC has computerised Pay roll and PF of all its employees across the state. E-mail facilities to all of its Depots, Divisions and other Units for sending information electronically.KSRTC is the first Corporation to have implemented ERP Oracle Financials. |
