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(28-11-2017, 07:00 AM)Guest Wrote: [ -> ]Hi am Anu i would like to get details on projects in ksrtc in kerala
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Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) is the state bus company of Kerala, India. It is one of the oldest public bus public transport services in India and is based in Thiruvananthapuram. The first of the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation was the State Transportation Department of Travancore, constituted by King Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma, with the intention of reorganizing the transport services of the former state. E.G. Salter, Assistant Superintendent of Operations of the London Passenger Transport Board, was appointed Superintendent of the Department of Transportation on September 20, 1937. The Department of Transportation grew with the nationalization of key interstate routes such as the Thiruvananthapuram-Kanyakumari route and the Palakkad-Coimbatore route.
The first fleet consisted of 60 Comet chassis equipped with Perkins diesel engines, imported from England. The bodies of the buses were built by the staff of the Travancore State Department of Transportation under the supervision of the Superintendent. The current operational staff follows the model for the selection of operational personnel. The Department of Transportation gave preference to hiring those who would probably lose their jobs from private transport companies as a result of the nationalization of the Thiruvananthapuram-Kanyakumari route. Therefore, the Department of Transportation began with a staff of around one hundred graduates appointed as inspectors and drivers.
The State Motor Service was inaugurated by King Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma on February 20, 1938. He and his relatives were the first passengers in the system on the inaugural trip; Superintendent Salter was the bus driver. This bus, along with the other thirty-three buses brought on the road driving through Kowdiar Square was an attraction at that time.
After the enactment of the Road Transport Corporation Act in 1950, the Government of Kerala formulated the KSRTC standards in 1965 by Section 44. The Department of Transportation became an autonomous corporation on April 1, 1965 and the Keralacation of March 15, 1965. KSRTC buses are registered under a dedicated RTO in Thiruvananthapuram with the KL-15 registration series.
The state government had issued a notice in 2012 that suspended the issuance of new permits for interdistrict buses and exempted the Kerala State Transport Corporation (KSRTC). The presumption then was that state services would enter and operate on these routes. However, it has led to a shortage of Kochi services to several northern districts, said Madhu Sivaraman, director of CPPR (research and projects), which conducted a study on the choice between KSRTC and private buses.