Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Oct 6: A new thought has been given to put the old KSRTC buses to reuse. It has been planned to use the old, out of date buses into classrooms. KSRTC has now been helping the villagers of Bagwady in Kundapur to convert an old bus into a classroom.

As per norms, buses which have travelled over seven lac kilometres are scrapped. Hundreds of such buses are with the KSRTC. In normal course, they are treated as scrap and disposed off. But the corporation has been thinking of ways to reuse such buses. A few days back an old bus was converted into a toilet and stationed at Majestic. KSRTC also plans to use them as classrooms.

MD responds to plea of artist: The classrooms of the higher primary school at Bagwady have become dilapidated. New building is yet ot be built. An artist from Bagwady, Prashanth Achar has requested KSRTC managing director Shivayogi C Kalasad to give him an appointment to meet the deputy chief minister and transport minister Laman Savadi. Kalasad has agreed to do so and has promised to provide an old bus to convert as a classroom, said a senior official of the corporation.

Artist Prashnath Achar had prepared models of ordinary and Airavat buses of KSRTC and its video had become viral during the lockdown period. Shivayogi Kalasad too had noticed them and invited Achar to the central office of the corporation here on Monday where he verified the said models. He has requested Prashant Achar to provide him ten models of Airavat buses so that mini buses modelled on these can be provided to guests of KSRTC.

Achar said that during the lockdown period he had prepared KSRTC bus models and the corporation managing director who saw them on Youtube, had reqeusted him to provide similar models.