KSRTC Pass

 KSRTC buses were neither gentle nor smart. They were simply big and slow. Too big to manage and too slow to adapt. Getting a KSRTC student pass is as tough as reaching top of the Everest top! That was an ecstatic feeling when I got past after a year of hard work. It was essential for me to get a student pass while going to college on KSRTC bus, as it helps to avoid the rush on private buses and I was fed up of hearing shouts from private bus ‘kilees’(not everyone). These guys seem to drive like maniacs to make up for time ’lost’ by picking up passengers and have horns that can wake up the dead bodies. Even in situations where the traffic is slow/stuck because of obstruction, they keep blasting horns as if that would melt traffic. When you board the bus, i.e. your toes touch it; the cleaner/conductor blocks his hands on the door in such a way that you don’t fall and whistle at the same time. If you don’t get down from the bus that moment you hear the whistle, then you’re sure to get down off in the next stop. To avoid these things, fortunately/unfortunately, I was the one who gave a full charge of Rs 25/- on the KSRTC bus for a year and sponsored my money to overcome a negative revenue-expenditure gap of around 55 crore rupees every month!! 

      At last, Finally, I started my royal journey on a KSRTC bus, being a student pass holder. Some travels were interesting, some were sleepy and a few were irritating because of over-chatty co-passengers, snoring, and arm wrestling for the arm rest, honking in the middle of my sleep or at the reading time. But still, travel becomes more interesting when couples get into it and start doing their ‘duty’ by forgetting about the circumstance.  Nothing much, we will get a prey to talk about within friends circle. We have only two KSRTC buses which accept student passes in the morning and in the evening. Most of the time, none of the buses will take off at the correct time. So we wait for a long time to catch it and it’s our only option! As there is a saying, ‘Good things come to those who wait’. We wait, we love it too.