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On the initiative of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the free bus travel scheme launched for women on Rakshabandhan festival has made new records of passenger number this time. In view of this facility lasting three days, it is expected to make a record of 75 lakh passengers till 12 pm.

According to the Transport Corporation, it can have up to 70 percent passengers, who are being given the benefit of free travel by the government.

On the festival of Rakshabandhan, the Yogi government gave a big gift to the mothers and sisters of the state from August 8 to 10, a free journey in the buses of the Transport Corporation. In this, this facility is also being provided to a co -passenger along with women.

According to Masoom Ali Sarwar, Managing Director of Transport Corporation, on normal days, 14-15 lakh passengers travel daily in corporation buses, but this time the figure reached more than 50 lakhs in the first two days of Rakshabandhan festival. About 70 percent of them were women passengers, who took advantage of the 66 -hour ‘gift of honor’ given by Chief Minister Yogi.

MD Sarwar said that there was a huge crowd of passengers at the bus stations from 6 am on August 8. On the first day i.e. August 8, more than 19.5 lakh people traveled, which was 25 percent more than normal days.

On August 9 on the day of Rakshabandhan, this number reached 31.7 lakhs, which was more than 210 percent compared to normal days. On the third day, on August 10, by 12.50 pm, 13 lakh passengers had traveled and this number is expected to reach 25 lakh by 12 pm. In this way, more than 75 lakh people will travel in buses in three days, which is an unprecedented number in the history of the Transport Corporation.

He said that on the instructions of the Chief Minister, this time on August 8, August 8 to 10 August midnight, free travel facility was provided for women and daughters in roadways buses.

During this period, additional buses were run as per the requirement and all contracted buses were also engaged in operation. Special duty and additional employees were deployed at major bus stations, Ghaziabad, Moradabad, Meerut, Bareilly, Lucknow, Saharanpur, Agra, Aligarh, Kanpur and Etawah.

He also informed that a plan to give incentives to the driver-operators has been implemented, in which 1,800 km of operation will be paid 1,200 for payment and additional Rs 0.55 per km for working continuously for 6 days.

At the same time, technical employees are also being given an incentive amount of 500 rupees on daily appearance. Personnel and supervisors who maintain better operations will also be honored at Rs 5,000 per station.