The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) has warned its drivers and conductors against ill-treating students of the Government College of Engineering in Ramanagaram, who travel on bus pass.
The KSRTC has also created a helpline to receive complaints against the “errant crew” besides deploying an officer at the entrance of the college, on the Bengaluru-Mysuru highway in Ramanagaram, to help the students.
The engineering college and the government polytechnic college, functioning in the same building, are situated on the outskirts of Ramanagaram town. Over 800 students and staffs of both the institutions have to depend on KSRTC buses to reach the college. Nevertheless, the crew of KSRTC buses plying between Bengaluru and Mysuru either push students off the vehicles or refuse to allow them to board the buses.
The Hindu had highlighted the issue in a report ‘Students want a stop to ‘antics’ of bus crew’ , on May 2.
“We have strictly instructed the crew to allow students to travel in buses and deployed an officer at the college to stop the buses [coming from Mysuru side] near the college,” Krishnegowda, Depot Manager (KRSTC, Ramanagaram), told The Hindu .
Helpline
To receive complaints against the crew, the department has also created a helpline (7760990867).
