Happy Independence Day 2025: KSRTC's seater, sleeper buses will embrace tri-colour theme
The 49-seater buses come equipped with LED TV displays that can be connected to a Wi-Fi system, along with mobile charging points for every seat.
The 49-seater buses come equipped with LED TV displays that can be connected to a Wi-Fi system, along with mobile charging points for every seat.
The 49-seater buses come equipped with LED TV displays that can be connected to a Wi-Fi system, along with mobile charging points for every seat.
On the occasion of the country's 79th Independence Day, the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) is also set to introduce new fleets of buses for passengers. The corporation is gearing up to roll out 164 new buses across various categories, including Fast Passenger, Super Fast, Fast Passenger Link, Premium Sleeper and Seater-cum-Sleeper series. The Seater-cum-Sleeper and Sleeper buses come in a theme designed after the national flag, featuring push-back leather seats, mobile charging points, televisions, CCTV surveillance and onboard cameras.
Transport Minister K B Ganesh Kumar inaugurated the trial run of the new fleet. The design for the new buses was created by G Adithya Krishnan, an automobile and transport design graduate from Coventry University, England, along with his friend Amal Jokin Salat. Adithya Krishnan is the son of Minister Ganesh Kumar.
In the Seater-cum-Sleeper buses, berths are arranged above the seats, with single berths on one side and double berths on the other. While the Fast Passenger and Super Fast models will be operated on Tata chassis, the rest will use Ashok Leyland chassis. The new fleet will be on public display at Kanakakkunnu Palace grounds from August 22 to 24.
New buses start arriving
The new fleet, being presented to the public as an Onam gift, has already started arriving in the city. Minister Ganesh Kumar himself drove some of the newly arrived buses. The models that reached the Anayara Swift depot in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday included 13.5-metre diesel AC Seaters, Sleepers, Seater-cum-Sleepers and 10.5-metre Fast Passenger buses.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will officially launch a fleet of 130 buses across different series on August 21. The 49-seater buses come equipped with LED TV displays that can be connected to a Wi-Fi system, along with mobile charging points for every seat. Each bus is also fitted with five onboard cameras. In total, around 340 new buses will join the KSRTC fleet over the next six months.