Bengaluru
The Transport Department’s maximum estimated free ridership for a day under the Shakti scheme has been breached, with over 51.52 lakh women boarding State-run road transport corporation (RTC) buses on Tuesday (June 13), the third day into the implementation of this welfare programme.
According to the Transport Department, 41.8 lakh women were estimated to avail of the scheme on a single day, and they arrived at this number assuming that 50% of the total ridership which is pegged at over 82 lakh were women before the launch of this scheme.