Shakti Yojana: How many women travelled free in bus on first day? Details

Launching the Congress government ambitious Shakti free travel scheme for women in public transport buses, Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah officially launch scheme on Sunday and said the scheme will empower women and increase their representation in public life. Shakti Yojana: How many women travelled free on the bus on the first day; here are complete details.

After scheme launch Yesterday (June 12) from 1 pm to 12 am, 5.71 lakh women across the state travelled for free. 1,93,831 women passengers travelled in the buses of Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation whose travel value was Rs 58,16,178.

A total of 2, 01,215 women travelled in BMTC buses (passenger value 26, 19,604.00), while 1, 22,354 women travelled in North-West Transport buses (trip value is 36,17,096). 53,623 women travelled in Kalyan Karnataka Transport (trip value is 19.70, 000).

Thus yesterday a total of 5, 71,023 women travelled free of cost in transport buses. The cost of their ticket is Rs.1, 40, 22,878 and this money will be given to the transport organizations by the government. This is only 11 hour figures. Since yesterday was Sunday, female students going to schools and colleges and employees going to private government offices did not travel. So the number of passengers can double today.

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The scheme allows women and transgender, across age and economic strata, to travel free in government buses within Karnataka. However, there are restrictions on the kind of buses that are allowed. “Women and trans genders irrespective of caste, religion and age the scheme covers even students are eligible for the free bus travel,” CM Siddaramaiah said after scheme launch.

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As per KSRTC officials, as many as 5,102 of the 5,548 BMTC buses and 6,239 out of 7,482 KSRTC buses will have this facility for women, besides 3,892 NWKRTC and 3,376 KKRTC buses. They said on average, about 42 lakh women passengers will benefit from the scheme every day.

Transport minister Ramalinga Reddy said 50% of the 6.5 crore people in the state are women and 90% of them using buses will benefit from this scheme.