Karnataka relaxes COVID-19 curbs, resumes bus service to these Maharashtra districts from today, details here

The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) issued an order which stated that the bus services to Maharashtra, Pune, Miraj, Solapur, Pandharpur and Tuljapur will resume with a seating capacity of 50 percent from Friday (June 25, 2021). 

New Delhi: The Karnataka government on Thursday (June 24, 2021) further relaxed the COVID-induced lockdown curbs in the state and allowed the buses to resume services to Maharashtra. The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) issued an order which stated that the bus services to Maharashtra, Pune, Miraj, Solapur, Pandharpur and Tuljapur from Bengaluru, Shivamogga, Mangaluru and other places of the state will resume with a seating capacity of 50 percent from Friday (June 25, 2021).  Earlier, the KSRTC had resumed inter-state bus services to Andhra Pradesh and Telangana with 50 percent seating capacity from June 22, as per the guidelines of respective states. The KSRTC in an order stated that it is deploying only 3,000 buses initially for local and inter-district long route operations, the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) had said it will ply 2,000 buses.