"mahalakshmi-scheme"

BRS Working President KT Rama Rao sharply criticised Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy for causing chaos through rumors surrounding the Mahalakshmi scheme. Referring to a fistfight that broke out among women at a Nizamabad post office over the scheme’s benefits, Rama Rao slammed the Congress government for delivering chaos instead of promised support.

Regional Manager B Raju informed that a total of 50 buses would be operated from different depots of the region

Conductor charges passenger Rs 30, when latter noticed the wrong ticket and questioned him, he claimed that ticket machine was malfunctioning

Says Mahalakshmi guarantee has not touched a single household in Telangana

BRS MLA KP Vivekananda said Mahesh Kumar Goud’s recent open letter to Chandrashekhar Rao appeared to shield Revanth Reddy's shortcomings. He called Mahesh Kumar Goud a dummy president controlled by the Chief Minister, pointing out that past PCC presidents openly criticised their party's governance when needed.

Condemns the remarks and wondered what message was the Chief Minister sending to the industry fraternity with such frivolous statements

Kavitha pointed out the delay in implementing the Mahalakshmi scheme, where women were promised Rs 2,500 per month but have received nothing even after a year. "The Chief Minister owes Rs 30,000 to each woman in Telangana under this scheme and an additional Rs 24,000 for not increasing pensions as promised," she said.

Harish Rao warned that if the Congress government failed to provide loan waiver amount to all the farmers, BRS leaders and workers would take the fight to Delhi and stage a protest in front of Gandhi's residence

These special buses will be available for passengers from October 1 to 15 and advance reservation facility has been provided in them.

Though the Congress government launched free RTC bus travel for women, fewer buses are plying on the city roads. Here women, mostly students, are forced to wait for a bus for long hours at the busy Himayatnagar.

RTC is planning to introduce a Semi-Deluxe category buses between these two categories. The ticket price will be 5 to 6 per cent higher than Express buses and 4 per cent lower than the Deluxe bus.

The government will finalise eligibility criteria based on land-holding and income sources of the eligible beneficiaries among others in this regard.

Irrigation and Civil Supplies Minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy said the initiative taken up to provide cooking gas cylinders at Rs.500 benefited around 40 lakh women in the State.

The Karnataka government proposed to hike the bus fare after the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) suffered a loss of Rs 295 crore due to the free bus ride scheme for women.

Though the five guarantees are believed to have propelled the Congress to power in the Assembly elections, they apparently did not help the party secure votes in the Lok Sabha elections.

The scheme, which offers free bus entitlement to ladies, has impacted the metro's average ridership.

Drawing attention to the Assembly election promises, the BRS leader recalled similar instances where the Congress did not implement its promises post victory.

Addressing party cadre of Gajwel assembly segment as part of a preparatory meeting of the Medak Lok Sabha election at Shamirpet on Saturday, Harish Rao said the State government was paying nothing to TSRTC and Civil Supplies Corporation to meet the expenses from the treasury.

With women travellers turning up in large numbers, the TSRTC has removed the grills in many buses that were earlier fixed to separate women and men travelling in buses.

The strike is expected to affect various transportation services, including those provided by Ola, Uber, Rapido, and porter cabs.