
Buses charging excess fare during Dasara to be penalised
The Hindu
Passengers can register complaint through WhatsApp number
The Road Transport Authority (RTA) will impose penalties on contract carrier buses plying in the State if they charge more than what is allowed for a particular route for the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) buses (50% excess for special buses during the festive season).
Deputy Transport Commissioner (Anantapur and Kurnool) N. Siva Rama Prasad told the media here on Thursday that if passengers, while booking their tickets online, found the fare abnormally high, they could register complaints against the contract carrier concerned through WhatsApp number 9493996060.

Away from the memorial of saint-composer Thyagaraja in Thiruvaiyaru, where his 179th aradhana is marked by five days of uninterrupted concerts, unchavritti and rendering of the Pancharatna kritis, a parallel aradhana is under way in Thanjavur. In the narrow Varagappa Iyer Lane off the bustling South Main Street, devotees queue up at a house named after Thyagaraja. It is here that the idols of Rama, Sita, Lakshmana, Bharata, Shatrughna and Anjaneya, worshipped by Thyagaraja himself, are preserved, along with a portrait of the saint-composer said to have been drawn by his disciples.












