Interstate buses to TN affected
The interstate services operated by Kerala State Road Transport Corporation to Tamilnadu has been affected adversely by the Mullaperiyar agitation. KSRTC has cancelled around 100 of the 427 Inter-state schedules operated to Tamil Nadu. KSRTC buses had been the target of protesters and there has been instances of stone-pelting at KSRTC buses in Coimbatore.
Further information from The New Indian Express:
“Officials of the Transport Department are in touch with their Tamil Nadu counterparts. We cannot continue suffering further damage as there are reports of pelting of stones on vehicles in many areas,” Transport and Devaswom Minister V S Sivakumar told Express.
Bangalore-bound buses from KSRTC depots in south and central Kerala are being diverted through the Kozhikode-Wayanad-Mysore route avoiding the Coimbatore-Salem belt.
“There are hardly any reports of attack on vehicles on the Pazhani-Pollachi route. The Nagercoil sector is the only trouble-free path now,” K M Irshad, Executive Director (Operations), KSRTC, told Express.
“Interestingly, operations of Tamil Nadu state government-owned buses in Kerala have not been hit,” Irshad said.
