TNSTC buses cover 95 lk km daily

Tirunelveli (TN), Oct 23  With the introduction of several new routes during the present DMK regime, state-owned transport corporations' buses in Tamil Nadu covered a distance of 95 lakh km daily as against 64 lakh km during the previous AIADMK rule, state Transport Minister K N Nehru said today. Similarly, the number of passengers carried by the buses daily had also gone up to 2.10 crore compared to 1.62 crore during the previous regime, he said here inaugurating the new Tirunelveli division of Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (TNSTC) carved out from Madurai division. He said during the last four-and-half years of DMK rule, a total of 20,500 buses were added to the rollinng stock while 45,000 personnel have been added to the workforce. Despite the corporations incurring a daily loss of Rs 2.17 crore, the government had been introducing new buses and routes without increasing bus fare, he said. Referring to the demand of transport corporation employees for wage hike, he said the government would consider it positively.