Free Bus for Women: The Congress government has provided free bus travel facility for women in the name of Mahalakshmi scheme. Congress leaders who said before the elections that they would provide free travel facility even in super luxury buses, after coming to power, restricted it to express buses. Ever since the launch of the Mahalakshmi scheme, RTC buses have been overcrowded. Men allege that as women travel in large numbers, they do not even have a place to stay. Complaints are being made to RTC MD Sajjanar.
There have also been incidents of men agitating for seats in RTC buses at some places. Recently, RTC has been running special buses for the students of engineering colleges in Hyderabad, which means that you can understand how the Mahalakshmi scheme is going. RTC took a crucial decision.
At present most of the buses used by RTC are running on rental basis. Almost half of the buses in the village are driven by leased buses. In this order, in order to control the increase due to Mahalakshmi, like the seats in the metro train, the seating system is also being changed in the RTC buses. RTC thinks that more people will stand in the middle. It is said that this decision will allow more than 25 additional passengers to travel in the RTC bus. However, the RTC officials say that the process of seat conversion will be carried out in Hyderabad first and then expanded to the entire state. Meanwhile, the government has paid around 700 crores to the RTC so far after completion of two months since the introduction of the Mahalakshmi scheme. The government says that the occupancy of RTC buses has increased in the wake of the introduction of the Mahalakshmi scheme.
Government officials say that in the past, women used to find it difficult to travel to other places. They were unable to spend on travel and put it off. Now that is not the case. Government officials say that the Mahalakshmi scheme has brought radical changes in the lives of women. They remind me that if they say that seats are not available in buses, then the scheme is successful. All in all, if this seat morphing process is completed, more people are likely to travel in the RTC bus.
