Tourist buses from Kochi stranded in West Bengal
The Hindu
No passengers for return trips from other States
Around 400 tourist buses that operated trips from Perumbavoor and other parts of Kerala to ferry migrant workers back to their home States are reportedly stranded in West Bengal, Assam and other places, following the lull in demand to return to Kerala. Workers cite the non-availability of jobs due to the prevailing lockdown in the State and the Ramzan season as reasons to postpone their return trips to Kerala. “Travel agents/bus operators used to charge a return fare of around ₹2.50 lakh per bus during the 2020 lockdown, when there was heavy and steady outflow of workers from Kerala. Buses could thus operate return trip to Kerala, even sans passengers, without suffering monetary loss. This is not the situation now, since the exodus out of Kerala is relatively lower. Most operators charged only around ₹1.25 lakh, the fare for single trip, on the hope that they would get passengers for the return trip. Sadly, this was not the case and vast number of buses and their crew are stuck there,” said Tensen P I, a travel agent.
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