The government bus road transport corporations (RTCs) have maintained high punctuality and, on an average, 94% of all services depart on time and 95.2% of all buses arrive at the destination on time, according to the latest report (2022) of the Karnataka Evaluation Authority (KEA) of the State Government.
The North-West Karnataka RTC has the highest on-time arrival and departure rates (96.5% and 96.9% respectively) against the KSRTC (95.2% on arrivals and 93.7 % on-time departures), and Kalyana Karnataka RTC (95.2% on-time departure and 93.6% arrival), the report said.
The KEA, which evaluated services of RTCs from 2014-15 to 2019-20, said the buses used for day travel showed a decreasing trend, falling by 4.4%, from 743 to 710 buses.
