Burning issues of the country must be discussed in the bar associations of Supreme Court, high courts and lower courts, said Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai.

The direction from the court came while hearing the petitions of the employees of the KSRTC seeking direction to the KSRTC and its MD to formulate a scheme for payment of salary to its employees atleast before the 5th day of every month.

New Delhi [India], October 6 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday expressed grief over the loss of lives in Kerala's Palakkad bus crash incident and announced Rs 2 lakh as ex-gratia each from the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund (PMNRF) for the next of kin of the deceased.

Nine people were killed and 38 others were injured after a tourist bus carrying students crashed into a Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) bus at Mangalam near Vadakkenchery area of Palakkad, Kerala minister M B Rajesh said on Thursday. Palakkad:  Nine people were killed and 38 others were injured... The post appeared first on .

Kochi (Kerala) [India], August 19 (ANI): Kerala High Court on Thursday strongly criticised the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) for not disbursing the pending salary of its employees.

Kochi (Kerala) [India], June 21 (ANI): Kerala High Court (HC) has issued an interim order directing the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) to pay salaries to its employees on the 5th of every month. Court has also asked the state government to ensure that this is followed.

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 9 (ANI): As many as 29 people were injured after a Karnataka State Transport Corporation (KSRTC) bus with 45 passengers on board met with an accident in Bengaluru. Four people sustained severe injuries, police said.

Kochi (Kerala) [India], May 6 (ANI): The Kerala High Court's vacation bench, on Friday, set aside an interim order of its single bench that directed the state-owned Oil Marketing Companies (OMC) to levy the price of High-Speed Diesel (HSD) for Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) at par with the price available at retail pumps temporarily.

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 1 (ANI): On the occasion of Labour Day, as many as 7,200 employee disciplinary cases of the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) were waived off on Sunday, said an official statement by KSRTC.

Kochi Mar 22 PTI The Kerala High Court on Tuesday declined to stay the state-owned oil companies OMCs decision to hike price of bulk diesel purchases or restrict them from further increasing the rates but asked them to explain the manner in which their pricing mechanism worked The order of the high court came on a plea by Kerala State Road Transport Corporation KSRTC challenging the OMCs decision to charge a higher rate from bulk purchasers of diesel as compared to retail prices of the fuel While asking Indian Oil Corporation Ltd Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd to file a statement explaining their pricing mechanism Justice N Nagaresh said that the OMCs should have given differential treatment to public service utilities like KSRTC You should give some differential treatment to public service utilities You know how KSRTC is functioning the court said Alleging hostile discrimination against KSRTC by the OMCs advocate Deepu Thankan -- representing the state transport corporation -- urged the high court to either stay the price hike or to restrict any further increase in the rate for bulk purchasers Thankan said the corporation was already running under heavy losses and without any interim relief it would be forced to shut down The court declined to pass any interim order in favour of the corporation saying there is no scope for an interim order right now Let the statement of the OMCs come first the court said and added that the KSRTC was to blame for running in loss The court also pointed out that the transport corporation had sought to be treated as a bulk purchaser and as a result had been enjoying the benefits of discounted prices for some time Thankan said that it chose the option to purchase diesel in bulk at discounted prices as it was providing a public service and it had separate fuel pumps for its buses as otherwise traffic snarls would be caused at retail outlets due to queuing up of its vehicles there KSRTC in its plea has contended that it has to pay more than Rs 27 extra per litre for diesel to the state-run oil manufacturing companies OMCs as compared to the rate of the fuel at private retail outlets Even the diesel supplied to private bus operators by OMCs was at a lesser rate than that charged from KSRTC the petition has claimed The transport corporation has claimed that it was charged Rs 12135 per litre for diesel by the OMCs while the other consumers of the companies were getting it for Rs 9172 per litre There is no reason forthcoming for supplying the diesel to the KSRTC alone at a higher price It cannot be said that it is because of the bulk use by the KSRTC as there is no shortage of petroleum products in the country There is no valid explanation for treating KSRTC as a separate class the plea filed through advocate Deepu Thankan has said Presently KSRTC operates 5481 buses on 3525 routes every day with a ridership of around 184 lakh per day it said and added that it presently requires around 300-400 kilolitres of diesel per day This is lesser than the pre-COVID-19 situation when the transport corporation was operating 6241 buses on 6389 routes every day with an average ridership of 35 lakh per day the petition said It has contended that permitting OMCs to charge bulk buyers more than retail purchasers would push the already ailing corporation into the deep abyss of debt and will deprive the general public of its services The OMCs decision to increase price of bulk purchase of diesel will result in an approximate accumulated loss of around Rs 83 lakh per day for the KSRTC the petition has claimed The increase in the price of diesel to the KSRTC alone will force them to take a decision to cancel the schedules to manage the cost of services The increase in price of diesel will directly affect the KSRTC passengers as the KSRTC will have to proportionally increase the tariff rates the plea has further contended KSRTC in its plea has urged the court to direct the OMCs to sell diesel to it at the market rates prevailing at retail outlets and to declare the charging of a higher price from the corporation as discriminatory arbitrary unreasonable and violative of Article 14 of the Constitution PTI HMP SS SS