Rise in fuel price, bus fares, power tariff hit people hard in Telangana
2 years, 8 months ago

Rise in fuel price, bus fares, power tariff hit people hard in Telangana

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: With petrol and diesel prices reaching around Rs 110.91 and Rs 97.24 respectively, and LPG gas per cylinder crossing the Rs 1,000 mark, the public are going to face a tough time managing their monthly budget. RTC bus fares are also going up along with fuel hike, making it hard for them to consider opting for public transport. Ramesh Beereddy, a private employee from Marredpally said with the rates going up, the traffic officials should get rid of the barricades preventing commuters from taking U-turns. - Debu Sinha, corporate employee and a fitness coach As life is returning to normalcy after two years of pandemic, these sudden hikes in fuels, LPG, and power tariff are unbearable for any middle-class person.

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Revanth Asks RTC to Buy More Buses
3 months, 1 week ago

Revanth Asks RTC to Buy More Buses

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Chief Minister Revanth Reddy has directed the Telangana Road Transport Corporation to initiate plans to purchase new buses to meet the increasing demand of commuters. During a review meeting held at the Secretariat on Tuesday, the Chief Minister highlighted the need to assess the public's evolving needs and explore innovative ways to enhance transportation services. Transport minister Ponnam Prabhakar …

Telangana RTC to acquire more buses: Transport minister
5 months, 1 week ago

Telangana RTC to acquire more buses: Transport minister

Deccan Chronicle  

Nalgonda: Transport minister Ponnam Prabhakar on Saturday said the Telangana Road Transport Corporation would be strengthened to improve the public transport facility in the state. Flagging off the Rajadhani AC bus and three delux services at the RTC depot here, he said 3,035 employees would be recruited in the corporation and tenders would be called for purchase of another 1,500 …

Delay Likely to 'Free Bus Transport for Women' Scheme in AP
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Delay Likely to 'Free Bus Transport for Women' Scheme in AP

Deccan Chronicle  

Visakhapatnam: Transport Minister Mandipalli Ramprasad Reddy has made it clear that the promised free bus transport for women in Andhra Pradesh will be delayed, but it “will be implemented.” “We are studying the systems in Karnataka and Telangana RTCs. He emphasised the pivotal role of both workers and passengers within the organisation and said the government would provide the workers …

Congress hiked fuel prices as revenge for poll debacle: Karnataka LoP Ashoka
6 months ago

Congress hiked fuel prices as revenge for poll debacle: Karnataka LoP Ashoka

New Indian Express  

BENGALURU: Hitting out at the state government for increasing petrol and diesel prices in Karnataka, Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R Ashoka claimed that the Congress-led dispensation is taking revenge on the people for defeating the party in the recent Lok Sabha polls. “During the previous BJP government, when fuel became costlier by just Re 1, the present CM …

Bus fare hike on cards, Karnataka govt may accept proposal
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Bus fare hike on cards, Karnataka govt may accept proposal

New Indian Express  

BENGALURU: As the price of diesel, spareparts and other components has risen as also the salaries of employees, the cost of operating road transport corporation buses has shot up. It was Rs 61 per litre in 2020, but it has gone up to around Rs 90 now, nearly a 50 per cent increase. An official from the bus corporation confirmed …

Andhra-bound TSRTC passengers complain of delays on polling day
7 months, 1 week ago

Andhra-bound TSRTC passengers complain of delays on polling day

New Indian Express  

HYDERABAD: Travelling from Hyderabad to their hometowns on Monday morning, primarily to cast their votes in simultaneous Assembly and Parliamentary polls, several passengers belonging to Andhra Pradesh complained of facing long delays on the TSRTC buses they had booked. The commuters also claimed that neither the RTC customer care services nor the bus staff were responding to their calls. Sajja …

Plea In Telangana High Court Challenges Free Transportation For Women & Transgenders On TSRTC Buses As Violative Of Constitutional Principles
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Plea In Telangana High Court Challenges Free Transportation For Women & Transgenders On TSRTC Buses As Violative Of Constitutional Principles

Live Law  

A plea has been moved before the Telangana High Court challenging a Government Order passed by the State, providing free travel on public transport exclusively to females, including transgenders, throughout the Telangana state in Telangana Road Transport Corporation utilities as ultra vires of the Road Trasport Corporation Act, 1950 and violative of Article 15 of the Constitution. The petitioner contended …

Private Bus Operators Exploit Sankranti Travel Rush with Soaring Fares
11 months, 1 week ago

Private Bus Operators Exploit Sankranti Travel Rush with Soaring Fares

Deccan Chronicle  

TIRUPATI: As the Sankranti festival approaches, private bus operators across Andhra Pradesh have seized the opportunity to significantly hike ticket fares on routes connecting major cities. Private buses on the Hyderabad-Vijayawada route, typically charge Rs 400, Rs 600, Rs 700 and Rs 870, but have increased the fares to Rs 1,100, Rs 2,500, Rs 3,000; and Rs 5,600 for this …

FM slams Telangana govt for failing to cut fuel tax, curb inflation
1 year, 4 months ago

FM slams Telangana govt for failing to cut fuel tax, curb inflation

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday slammed the Telangana state government, along with a few other state governments, for refusing to reduce taxes on fuels which, she said, was adding to inflationary pressures on essential and other commodities in the state. Speaking in the Lok Sabha on Thursday on the no-confidence motion moved by Opposition parties against the …

Ahead of Sankranti, private operators jack up bus fares
1 year, 11 months ago

Ahead of Sankranti, private operators jack up bus fares

Deccan Chronicle  

TIRUPATI/VISAKHAPATNAM: Cashing in on the Sankranti festival rush, private bus operators have jacked up the fares for buses plying on several routes across Andhra Pradesh as also to neighbouring Telangana, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. While the APSRTC has decided not to collect extra fares in the 6,400 special buses in operation during the festival season, private bus operators have increased …

Acute shortage of drivers’ hits Telangana RTC
2 years ago

Acute shortage of drivers’ hits Telangana RTC

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The large number of drivers of the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation either retiring or opting for voluntary retirement schemes or taking medical leave is not only impacting the RTC services, but also placing a heavy burden on the current drivers as there have been no fresh recruits for over a decade. Due to a severe shortage of drivers, …

Sparing passengers a fare hike, APSRTC keeps festive spirit up
2 years, 3 months ago

Sparing passengers a fare hike, APSRTC keeps festive spirit up

The Hindu  

Anumolu Chandra Kumar is upbeat. Private operators worried The State RTC move to announce its decision early, giving ample time to people to revise their travel choice, has become a cause of worry for private bus operators who make a killing during festival seasons by jacking up the ticket fares manifold. “This may have an impact on the business of …

Telangana discoms to collect Rs 4,092 crore true-up charges from power consumers
2 years, 3 months ago

Telangana discoms to collect Rs 4,092 crore true-up charges from power consumers

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Power consumers will face an additional burden as the state's two Discoms – TSNPDCL and TSSPDCL - prepare to collect Rs 4,092 crore in true-up charges for the last 15 years. The state government is unable to collect true-up charges on a regular basis, owing to public anger. "After careful consideration of electricity consumers, we will make the final …

Bandi flays RTC fare hikes, cops try to hold him at home
2 years, 6 months ago

Bandi flays RTC fare hikes, cops try to hold him at home

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: TS BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Friday alleged that the TRS government led by Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao has made the lives of common people miserable by increasing various taxes, power tariff and ticket rates for TSRTC buses. “In the last few months, the KCR government indiscriminately increased power tariffs, property tax, drinking water cess, and now …

Vehicles get dearer as Telangana RTA raises taxes
2 years, 7 months ago

Vehicles get dearer as Telangana RTA raises taxes

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Telangana State Road Transport Authority has increased life tax and green tax amounts, which will be an additional Rs 400 crore burden on those purchasing new vehicles. It is 13 per cent on vehicles priced below Rs five lakh, 14 per cent on above Rs five lakh, 17 per cent on above Rs 10 lakh while there will …

Steep hike in power bills affects consumers
2 years, 7 months ago

Steep hike in power bills affects consumers

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Steep hike in electricity bills has come as a rude shock to consumers as power charges have been increased to two to three times more. After a gap of five years, the Telangana State Electricity Regulatory Commission permitted Telangana State Northern Power Distribution Company Limited and Telangana State Southern Power Distribution Company Limited to increase the power tariff for …

TSRTC hikes bus fare for festival services
2 years, 7 months ago

TSRTC hikes bus fare for festival services

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: A bus ride will cost more for commuters during the festivals, special occasions, or holiday. Telangana State Road Transport Corporation circulated a notice to all its depots on Wednesday, saying the special buse services will charge 1.25 times of fare during festivals, occasions, jataras, special events and holidays. This practice in RTC existed since 2008, during which 1.50 of …

APSRTC hikes bus fares in the form of diesel cess from today
2 years, 8 months ago

APSRTC hikes bus fares in the form of diesel cess from today

Deccan Chronicle  

VIJAYAWADA: The Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation has hiked ticket fares. APSRTC managing director Dwaraka Thirumala Rao said that the RTC has been burdened by the increase in diesel prices and the bulk rate of diesel has further increased its burden. The RTC MD said the increase in diesel cess will generate an additional revenue of Rs 720 crore …

Telangana minister KT Rama Rao accuses BJP of misleading nation over rising fuel prices
2 years, 8 months ago

Telangana minister KT Rama Rao accuses BJP of misleading nation over rising fuel prices

India Today  

Telangana Rashtra Samithi working president and state minister KT Rama Rao lashed out at BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the daily hike in fuel prices. KTR also accused the BJP of misleading the country by citing Russia-Ukraine war as the reason for the price hike. KTR said the union ministers have been consistently spreading falsehood, saying fuel prices …

Surging fuel prices, rising mercury to make matters worse for households
2 years, 8 months ago

Surging fuel prices, rising mercury to make matters worse for households

The Hindu  

Diesel breached the ₹100-a-litre mark once again in Hyderabad after national oil marketing companies on Wednesday increased the pump price by 80 paise for the same quantity. Besides essential items, increase in diesel prices is bound to make travel expensive and also less comfortable for some. The oil companies had reverted to daily revision in petrol and diesel prices after …

Telangana RTC pushes for ticket fare hike
2 years, 9 months ago

Telangana RTC pushes for ticket fare hike

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Amid speculation that fuel prices would be increased because of rising cost of crude oil, the state-owned public transporter TS Road Transport Corporation is lobbying for permission to increase ticket fares. RTC-Greater Hyderabad, said, “Within the city limits, there are 3,100 buses.” The RTC covers 8.5 lakh route kilometres and consumes 1.4 lakh litres of diesel a day. Sajjanar, …

Petrol Price Crosses Rs 100 in 19 States; Know How Much Tax you Pay to State, Centre
3 years, 5 months ago

Petrol Price Crosses Rs 100 in 19 States; Know How Much Tax you Pay to State, Centre

News 18  

Petrol and diesel prices are at all-time high in India. Some of the states that charge the highest rates of VAT are Rajasthan, Telangana, Madya Pradesh and Odisha as per data submitted by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas to Parliament on July 19. Rajasthan has the highest taxes with a 36 per cent VAT with an added charge …

Explained: How record fuel prices are making life difficult for Indians
3 years, 5 months ago

Explained: How record fuel prices are making life difficult for Indians

India Today  

Record high domestic fuel prices in India have become a major concern for citizens as it is impacting their livelihoods, either directly or indirectly. Check petrol and diesel rate in Sri Ganganagar With no clear directive on resolving the fuel price crisis, Indians are likely to bear even higher costs in future if international crude oil rates strengthen. Check latest …

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