If you are waiting to travel in a bus which will offer you food and toilet facilities without having to get down at designated stops, then here it is. The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) is launching such services on Wednesday in select buses. Six multi-axle Volvo buses will have toilets and two of them will also have in-house pantry services.
The Airavat buses with toilet facilities will now be called Airavat Superia and those with both toilets and in-house pantry will be named Airavat Bliss. KSRTC had announced such an initiative on April 20 to make long-distance travelling a world-class experience, particularly for the elderly and those with children.
Officials told TOI that the toilets will be cleaned by maintenance staff of KSRTC and the food provided will be outsourced to a private vendor. “We will later outsource the entire pantry service to the vendor, depending on demand. Also, buses which ply for more than 10 hours, like the ones to Mumbai and Pune, will have a full-fledged in-house pantry service,” said officials.
Of the six buses to have such facilities are those bound for Chennai and Tirupati. Also, two of the Airavat Bliss buses will have live television sets fixed behind the seats. They’ll also be Wi-Fi enabled and can be tracked by Global Positioning System (GPS).
We will start pantry in our TATA super express and rename it as super express air pantry bus.
The KSRTC Super Deluxe from Calicut to Trivandrum that departs at 7:00 pm doesnt even care to stop for food!!! last week i travelled in that bus and the halt for food was at trissur stand for a mere 15 minutes!!!! What will you eat in 15 min. at a place where placing order for food takes 10 minutes. GREAT SERVICE mates…..taking into consideration that the journey from calicut to tvm takes nearly 10 hours….And all of us are dreaming of pantry in KSRTC…..Keep on dreaming folks!!!
they have plans to introduce this on trivandrum route.namude volvo ipolum pazhayathu tanne
stuppid decision by a stuppid chief minister… waste of our money.
new CM found the new idea to rob the money and gettin the fame…. super
This is not ministers decision,this a KaSRTC management decision……..
Minister just approved it that’s all………..
So we have to appreciate the efficient KaSRTC management for innovative changes which is supported by Legislators ….
This is not gona make a good deal.. I dont wanna these option in KeSRTC, but volvos are needed..
Hey Sujith, I just read in a motoring forum that Kerala SRTC is going to introduce a single Mercedes Benz tri-axle bus this Onam. AM sure you have some contacts in KSRTC, so can you confirm this news? If true, then it is indeed a giant leap for KSRTC..haha
Buses with such facilities have taken public transportation to the next level. Hats-off to KSRTC. I wish Kerala State RTC too has such buses plying. But the worrying thing of having such buses in Kerala is that there are more than 10 strikes are harthals in Kerala, which could result in buses being stoned which is a heavy loss to the corporation. Also buses needs to ply on schedule and on regular intervals to reap the profit. In a state like Kerala, it is literally impossible until strikes are banned.