A huge sigh of relief for people, who are all using the government owned corporation buses for their traveling. On January 3rd Thursday, Dr. Karunanidhi waived the flag and rolled out 1000 new buses for the transport corporations owned by the Tamil Nadu govt. The Tamil Nadu government owns three transport corporation namely S.E.T.C [State Express Transport Corporation], T.N.S.T.C [Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation] and MTC [Metropolitan Transport Corporation]. The newly rolled out 1000 buses were distributed to these three transports corporation, in this 500 buses were given to MTC and the remaining 500 buses were shared between SETC and TNSTC in distinct ratio. The official sources said that the new buses were added as a replacement for old tired buses, seen often in Chennai roads. And, also some new routes has been added to the usual fleet routes, in that most of that buses were directed to moffussil places.

I hope you all remember the addition of air-conditioned bus to the MTC, now it is SETC, the meager number of air-conditioned buses has been given to SETC. The Public talk is that, the newly added 500 new buses have not completely replaced the old tired buses, happens to be break down frequently. There is also one more sad story and truth behind the introduction of 500 new buses to the MTC, that will be analysed and discussed in the coming days.