GSRTC has hiked express bus fares by Rs2 to Rs6 and that of luxury buses by Rs3 to Rs9.
The Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC) has hiked bus fares by Rs2 to Rs9 per km. This comes close on the heels of the Rajasthan State Road Transport Corporation (RSRTC) hiking bus fares by 0.4 paisa to 14 paisa per km from September 20-21. The hikes are expected to hurt passengers who take express and luxury/deluxe buses to Rajasthan from Gujarat and vice-versa.
Not only commuters travelling between Gujarat and Rajasthan, but also travellers from Rajasthan going to Maharashtra via Gujarat will feel the heat of the twin hikes. However, the premium Volvo-bus services including Jaipur-Surat, Jaipur-Ahmedabad, Udaipur-Ahmedabad and Udaipur-Surat will not be hit by the hike announced by GSRTC as fares of Volvo bus services ranging from 24 to 600 km has not been touched.
The RSRTC too has kept Volvo buses connecting Rajasthan and Gujarat out of the ambit of fare hike. The hike announced by the GSRTC has become effective from September 29 and will hurt the passengers of express and luxury/deluxe bus.
In case of express buses, the fares have been hiked by Rs2 to Rs6 (spanning from 6 to 600 km), while fares of luxury buses have been raised by Rs3 to Rs9 (six km to 600 km).
As per the agreement between transport department of both the states, inter-state buses running between Gujarat and Rajasthan charge fares as per the latter’s rate when running in Rajasthan. But the moment these buses enter Gujarat they will have to charge rates decided by the GSRTC.
As per RSRTC officials, the fare hike announced by the GSRTC will particularly hit business class travellers as well as labourers who commute every day by RSRTC Express and deluxe buses from Bhilwara, Udaipur, Abu Road, Jalore, Sirohi, Dungarpur and Banswara.
The RSRTC inter-state buses connect Rajasthan with 11 states. Over 300 RSRTC buses operate on 153 routes of Gujarat covering 40,140 km and catering to more than 15,000 passengers daily.
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