Free Bus Travel For Women In Karnataka From Today, Congress Govt Launches ‘Shakti’ Scheme | News18
The Congress government in Karnataka rolled out the first of its five poll guarantees Sunday by launching the ‘Shakti’ scheme, which offers free bus rides within the state for women and transgender people in buses of the state-run transport corporations .
At the Kempegowda Bus Terminal in Bengaluru, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his deputy D K Shivakumar handed out ‘zero-value’ tickets to five women passengers — Sumitra, Radha, Prema, Kalavathi and Pavithra — and flagged off a bus travelling to the temple town of Dharmasthala. The first beneficiaries of the new scheme were handed replicas of the smart cards that would be issued in the next three months to women passengers.
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