Bengaluru, November 6: In view of Deepavali Festival i.e Narakachaturdashi on 12.11.2023 & Balipadyami on 14.11.2023 KSRTC has made elaborate arrangements for operating 2000 extra buses from Bengaluru to various places as mentioned below to provide transport facility to the traveling public from 10.11.2023 to 12.11.2023. Later, special buses will be operated from various places of Intra & Interstate places to Bengaluru from 14.11.2023 to 15.11.2023.
Special buses will be exclusively operated from Bengaluru Kempegowda Bus Station to Dharmastala, Kukkesubramanya, Shivamogga, Hassan, Mangaluru, Kundapura, Shringeri, Horanadu, Davangere, Hubbali, Dharwad, Belagavi, Vijayapura, Gokarna, Sirsi, Karwar, Raichur, Kalaburagi, Ballari, Koppala, Yadgir, Bidar, Tirupathi, Vijayawada, Hyderabad and other places.
Special buses from Mysuru Road Bus Station will be exclusively operated towards Mysuru, Hunsur, Piriyapatna, Virajpet, Kushalanagar, Mercara. All premier Special buses will be operated from BMTC Bus Station, Shanthinagar (TTMC) to Madurai, Kumbakonam, Chennai, Coimbatore, Trichy, Palakkad, Thrissur, Ernakulam, Calicut and other places in Tamil Nadu and Kerala state.
Facility is provided to book computerized reservation tickets in advance for the special buses. Reserved passengers are requested to note the place of boarding in their reservation ticket. Passengers can book tickets online by logging on to www.ksrtc.karnataka.gov.in
A discount of 5% on the fare will be extended, if four or more passenger’s book tickets in a single ticket and a discount of 10% is offered on the return journey ticket if onward and downward journey tickets are booked simultaneously.
Advance Reservation of tickets for the services of KSRTC can be booked through the booking counters established by KSRTC at important cities of neighbouring States i.e. Tamilnadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Kerala, Puduchery, Maharashtra and Goa State.
The details of the special operations like place and timings of departure have been provided in the computerized advance reservation network and also in the advance reservation tickets KSRTC website for the information of the traveling public.
In addition to the above, special buses will be operated from all Taluk/District Bus Stands in the jurisdiction of KSRTC based on the traffic needs says official press release.
