I t has been a rough ride for passengers as well as the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TGSRTC) for more than a decade. Successive governments appear to have placed these key public-transport stakeholders low on their list of priorities, often leaving them to political will or expediency.

In October, the Congress government in Telangana approved a fare hike for ordinary bus services : ₹5 for the first three stages (a stage is a set distance — for example, 3 or 5 kilometres) and ₹10 from the fourth stage onward. Fares for metro deluxe and e-metro AC services were raised by ₹5 for the first stage and ₹10 for each subsequent stage. The move was pegged to the need for developing infrastructure, and replacing diesel buses with 2,800 electric vehicles and developing allied elec

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