Mangaluru: Private bus services in Dakshina Kannada will resume from June 1, with 50% of the buses plying back on the road after over two months of nationwide lockdown due to the spread of Corona Virus in the country.
Usually, about 325 city busses ply the Mangaluru roads from 6:00 am to 10 pm routing and connecting several parts in and around city. In an official statement by the bus owners’ association, it was informed that about 150 buses will start service. Meanwhile about 450 service busses, 70 contract carriages and 150 tourist busses will start services in the city from June 1.
A compatible mechanism will be planned out in next two days about how, where and how many number of busses will commence on particular roads, a top KSRTC official said.
DK DC Sindhu B Rupesh has asserted that a meeting of bus drivers and owners with the RTO officials will be organised and strict instructions and measures will be sent out to them to be followed.
