The Dasara festive season has turned out to be a money spinner for Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC)
The corporation, which had operated nearly 4,200 special buses from Hyderabad to various locations during the festival is learnt to have generated revenue of nearly Rs 195 crore in a fortnight’s time
The special Dasara buses were run without increasing ticket fares to various districts and neighbouring States, apart from arranging extra buses at all the routes where the demand was high
This year, the TSRTC had run special buses from September 24 to October 5
Bus services, however, continued in several places in view of the return of the citizens to Hyderabad from their native places post the festival
While on the Dasara day, the Corporation made a profit of Rs 6 crore, other days, it collected about Rs 13 crore per day on an average
On October 6, RTC collected Rs 11.09 crore, Rs 14.91 crore on October 7, Rs 14.97 crore on October 8 and Rs 14.9 crore on October 9
In the span of four days, it earned about Rs 56.97 crore profits through tickets from passengers during the festive time