The Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) can avoid being dependent on the Finance department every month if around 1,200 buses idling in various units are made operational, Biju Prabhakar, Chairman and Managing Director (CMD), has said. In his third Facebook video on the crisis in the KSRTC posted on Monday, he said if these buses were made operational, the corporation would get an additional revenue of ₹30 crore.
If this amount is added to the average ₹210 crore it generates every month, the corporation will be able to tide over the crisis to a certain extent and disburse salaries on time. If these buses are made functional, the bus-crew ratio can be reduced, which is a major suggestion of the Sushil Khanna panel.
