Six Travel Buses Confiscated

Transport Department officials on Tuesday, six buses belonging to a private travel agency and two educational institutions were seized for operating without valid documents of the confiscated vehicles, three buses belonged to the city-based Kaleswari Travels, two to Chaitanya Techno School and one to Lingaya Management Institute.


The officials formed three groups and fanned to three entry-exit points in the city – Nandigama toll gate, old RTA check-post at Ibrahimpatnam, and near Kanaka Durgamma Vaaradhi. 


Private bus operators in Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Tirupati, Guntur, Kurnool, Nellore, Anantapur and Hyderabad. Sources said the RTA officials checked whether the private bus operators complied with the rules. The private buses transport thousands of passengers to major cities and a number of other destinations daily.


Special teams headed by deputy transport commissioners swooped down on the offices of leading private transport operators like Kesineni, Sri Kaleswar, Moonlight, SRKT, Sri Krishna, Padmavathi, Diwakar, Venkata Ramana and others. The RTA decided to launch the crackdown after the private bus fell off a bridge on way to Shirdi on Saturday last