RailEnquiry

Public transport in the city and the district, which revolves around the services of the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC), was affected for the second consecutive day on Friday owing to the workers’ strike.Though private service providers were permitted to use government bus stations to pick up and drop passengers, only a few utilised the service.Though the strike should have come as a bonanza for these people, they had to content with normal earnings as people obviously changed their travel plans in view of the strike.KSRTC operates 3,557 trips in Mysore urban areas with its fleet of 425 buses which remained off the road on Friday. Within city limits, autorickshaws were charging double the normal rate and meter reading was done away with.While city services were completely paralysed, suburban services too suffered a similar fate on high-density routes such as Mysore–Nanjangud, Mysore–Hunsur, and Mysore–T. Narsipur. Inter-city and inter-State services too were hit though private operators pitched in for the Mysore-Bangalore route.

Students’ attendance
While a bulk of urban citizens travelled by their own vehicles, students of government schools and colleges were among the worst hit.

Out of the nearly 690 students in Government Girls High School at the People’s Park, only 295 turned up on Friday.

About 400 of them are pass holders and a majority of them comes from neighbouring villages on the outskirts of the city. Only 20 attended classes in Government PU College for Girls, which had 247 students on its rolls.

Though only a few tourists visited the Mysore zoo, there was no appreciable difference in the number of people visiting the Mysore palace in the last two days.

According to the statistics from the Railways, the strike has not affected the daily passenger movement and there has not been a considerable shift from road to railways. The number of outbound passengers from Mysore hovered around 25,000 and there were as many inbound passengers, which is the normal passenger traffic.

However, officials said there was a surge in passengers for Shatabdi Express to Bangalore, and against the nearly 275 tickets issued daily, nearly 400 tickets were issued on Friday, including for the executive class.

Meanwhile, an overloaded tempo carrying nearly 20 passengers toppled in H.D. Kote and eight students sustained injuries and were hospitalised.