RTC renews focus on students

Some Palle Velugu services restored

TSRTC officials have laid a renewed focus on attending to requests from students for restoration of “Palle Velugu” bus services to some villages which were discontinued for various reasons, including low occupancy ratio and COVID-19-induced lockdown in the past.

Considering persistent requests from students in both online and offline modes, authorities of the public transport entity restored bus services to three interior villages - Bodu in Tekulapalli mandal, Ulvanoor in Palvancha mandal and Kakarla in Julurupadu mandal in Bhadradri-Kothagudem district a week ago.

The bus services to Bodu and Kakarla were cancelled more than a decade ago owing to multiple factors such as thin occupancy rate, poor condition of roads and increased movement of private vehicles in the predominantly tribal-populated region, sources said.