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KARNATAKA STATE ROAD TRANSPORT CORPORATION

CENTRAL OFFICE : BENGALURU - 560 027.

Planning & Statistical Department

Annual Administration Report

2015-16

Published by : Managing Director,Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation,Central Office, K.H.Road, Shanthinagar,Bengaluru – 560 027.

Compiled by : Chief Planning & Statistical Officer,Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation,Central Office, K.H.Road, Shanthinagar,Bengaluru – 560 027.

Printed by : Controller of Printing & Stationary,Karnataka State Road Transport Press,K. H. Road, Shanthinagar,Bengaluru - 560 027.

Yours faithfully,

Sd/-

(RAJENDER KUMAR KATARIA)MANAGING DIRECTOR.

KARNATAKA STATE ROAD TRANSPORT CORPORATION

K.H. Road, Shanthinagar : Bengaluru – 560 027.

No. KST:CO:PLN & STAT:728 :2016-17 Date: 30 -01-2017

ToThe Principal Secretary to Government,Transport Department,Govt. of Karnataka,M.S Building,Bengaluru – 560 001.

Sir,

As required under Section 35(2) of the Road Transport Corporation Act 1950, the

55th Annual Administration Report of the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation

for the year 2015-16, together with the relevant statistical data and financial statements, is

submitted herewith.

INDEX

Sl. No. PARTICULARS PAGE

NO.

1 Introduction 1

2 Management 6

3 Administration 9

4 Operations 14

5 Auto engineering 27

6 Stores 36

7 Finance 39

8 Civil engineering 57

9 Labour 59

10 Security & vigilance 64

11 Environment initiatives 69

12 Information technology 74

13 General 78

Schedules:

1 Schedule ‘A’ – Meetings attended by the Board of Directors 91

2 Schedule ‘B’ – Divisionwise Depots, Bus stations & Control Points 93

3 Schedule ‘C’ – Fare structure 95

4 Schedule ‘D’ – Casual contract rates 97

5 Schedule ‘E’ – Categorywise pay scales 98

6 Schedule ‘F’ – Depreciation 103

Appendixes:

1 Depots, Schedules, Scheduled Kms, Routes and Route Kms, as on 31-03-2016 104

2 Operational Kms. 105

3 Fleet, Vehicle utilization, Average seating capacity as on 31-03-2016 106

4 Vehicles held & fleet utilization 107

5 Staff position as on 31-03-2016 108

6 Performance of fuel & tyres 109

7 Production – Regional Workshops 110

8 Quality of services 111

9 Performance of Battery, Engine and FIP 112

10 Balance sheet as on 31-03-2016 113

11 Accounting policies 115

12 Profit & Loss account for the year ended 31-03-2016 125

13 Net revenue appropriation account for the year ended 31-03-2016 127

14 Capital expenditure for the year 2015-16 128

Annual Administration Report 2015-16

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CHAPTER-1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 PERIOD COVERED:

This is the fiftyfifth Annual Administration Report of the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation covering the activities of the Corporation for the financial year 2015-16 i.e., from 1st April 2015 to 31st March 2016.

1.2 MANAGEMENT:

The amended RTC Act 1982 provides for the Management of the Corporation by the Board of Directors. The Board of Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation as on 31st March 2016 consisted of 12 Directors out of which two Directors are non official Directors i.e., the Chairman and Vice Chairman while the remaining 10 Directors are official Directors. All the Directors are appointed by the State Government.

1.3 ADMINISTRATIVE SET UP:

During the year 2015-16, no new depot was commissioned. Thus as on 31-03-2016, KSRTC had 15 Divisions (14 operating Divisions and Kempegowda Bus Station Division) with 78 Depots under its jurisdiction besides 2 Regional Workshops, 2 Civil Engineering Divisions, one Printing Press, one Central Training Institute, 2 Regional Training Institutes and a Hospital.

1.4 PASSENGER AMENITIES AND FACILITIES:

The Corporation has accorded high priority to provide increased amenities to the travelling public. As on 31-03-2016, there were 150 permanent bus stations besides 12 rural wayside shelters and 306 city pick-up shelters. The long distance express and non-stop services were further augmented to meet the needs of the travelling public. In order to provide more comfort to traveling public, 160 Mofussil (NAL), 10 Eicher , 10 DULT City, 20 Scania Multi axle and 6 Corona sleeper buses totaling to 206 new buses were inducted during the year.

As on 31-03-2016, in all 1264 long distance routes were in operation with route length ranging from 120 Kms. to 1078 Kms. The Corporation has operated 2891 ordinary, 3452 express, 4 semi-deluxe, 252 Rajahamsa , 2 Rajahamsa A/C, 43 Karnataka Vaibhav, 80 Non A/C Sleeper, 46 A/C sleeper, 5 Corona, 179 Airavatha (Volvo), 4 Airavata Benz, 130 Airavata Club class (Multi axle Volvo), 16 Airavata Club class (Multi axle Mercedez) , 6 Fly bus, 20 Airavata Diamond class (Scania), 41 Volvo (City), 189 City, 154 Semi Low Floor and 112 Suburban services as on 31-03-2016. The Semi low floor type of vehicles are being operated on city and suburban routes.

1.5 OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY:

The operational results in respect of vital parameters during 2015-16 compared to 2014-15 are as under:


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1. Decrease in Effective Kms. to 9683.54 lakhs during 2015-16 as compared to 9880.66 lakhs in 2014-15.

2. Increase in average vehicle utilization to 358 kms during 2015-16 when compared to 357 kms achieved during 2014-15.

3. Increase in average tyre life to 179948 kms during 2015-16 from 164380 Kms. of 2014-15.

4. Increase in fuel efficiency with KMPL of 4.83 during 2015-16 as compared to 4.82 of 2014-15.

5. Rate of breakdowns per 10,000 kms was decreased to 0.03 during the year 2015-16 as compared to 0.04 of 2014-15.

6. Decrease in the rate of accident per lakhs Kms. to 0.11 during the year 2015-16 from 0.12 of 2014-15.

7. Decrease in earning per kilometer (on Traffic Revenue) (EPKM) to 2869.1 paise during the year 2015-16 from 2874.9 paise of 2014-15.

8. During the year 2015-16, the Corporation made a profit of Rs.5095.14 lakhs as against a loss of Rs.4349.01 lakhs incurred during 2014-15.

1.6 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS :

4 meetings were held between the management and the labour representatives during the year 2015-16 in order to resolve the issues and demands of the labour and to maintain harmonious relationship. No strikes/ Dharani/Satyagraha was reported during the year.

The Corporation has been extending medical, housing and other welfare benefits to its employees, in addition to other facilities for cultural and sports activities

1.7 ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN 2016-17 :

Every year the Corporation formulates its Action Plan for taking steps to improve performance efficiency. Norms are fixed not only to bring down the cost of operations, but also to improve various operational parameters. The highlights of Action plan for the year 2016-17 are as follows.

It is proposed: 1) To augment 470 schedules.

2) To achieve KMPL (HSD) of 4.92

3) To achieve vehicle utilisation of 360 Kms.

4) To achieve average tyre life of 187000 Kms.

5) To add 1521 new vehicles ( including JnNURM and Dult City buses) to the existing

fleet by replacing 962 old vehicles which are not fit for operation .

6) To operate 10264.32 lakh Effective kms, there by registering a growth of 6.0%.

7) To earn a gross revenue of Rs.314236.42 lakhs (excluding reimbursement to be received from Govt. towards issual of various kinds of free/concessional passes)


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8) To contain the cost of operations at Rs.338365.09 lakhs.

9) To limit losses at Rs. 24128.67 lakhs on gross revenue (excluding reimbursement to be received from the Govt. 10) To earn an EPKM of 2921.3 paise on traffic revenue.

11) To contain the CPKM at 3296.5 paise.

12) To complete depot construction work at Belur, Hosadurga, Sulya, Piryapattna and

Madhugiri.

13) To construct 12 new bus stations.

1.8. ANNUAL PLAN 2015-16:

The total capital expenditure incurred by the Corporation during the year 2015-16 for its developmental activities was Rs.16357.44 lakhs as against the proposed amount of Rs.27568.07 lakhs as per the revised budget estimates. 206 new bus bodies were built during 2015-16.

The programme of capital expenditure during the year 2015-16 are shown below.

(Rs.in lakhs) Sl.No. Programme Proposed Actual

1 Land and Buildings 9435.00 6949.85

2 Passenger Buses & Dept.vehicles. 5911.07 5656.02

3 Environment Equipments 400.00 104.95

4 Plant, Machinery,Equipment, Computer Hardware, Software and ETMs etc.

250.00 20.78

5

a) GEF

b) JnNURM Civil

c) JnNURM Buses

345.00 3212.00 8015.00

304.24 2933.95 387.65

Total 27568.07 16357.44

The Corporation in its budget estimates 2016-17 has a capital expenditure programme of Rs.52218.00 lakhs.

The Corporation has availed a loan of Rs.400.00 lakhs from the commercial banks and other financial institutions during the year 2015-16. It has planned to avail a similar loan of Rs.6300.00 lakhs during the year 2016-17.

PROGRESS AT GLANCE

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CHAPTER-2 MANAGEMENT

2.1 COMPOSITION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS:

As on 31st March 2016, the Board of Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation consisted of 12 Directors, including the Chairman and the Vice Chairman. Out of 12 Directors, 10 Directors were Official Directors. All the Directors were appointed by the State Government.

The Metropolitan Commissioner, BMRDA, Government of Karnataka is being invited to attend the Board Meetings as ‘Invitee’ as required under Section 19(a) of BMRDA Act-1985.

1. CHANGE OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS DURING THE YEAR 2015-16:

1. Sri. P. Ravikumar IAS., Additional Chief Secretary to Government, Transport Department, was appointed as Director on the Board of KSRTC vide Government Notification No: ¸ÁjE 10

¸Á¸ÀA¸ÉÃ 2015 dated 01-04-2015.

2. Dr.E.V.Ramana Reddy, IAS., Principal Secretary to Government, Transport Department, was appointed as Director on the Board of KSRTC vide Government Notification No: ¸ÁjE 38

¸Á¸ÀA¸ÉÃ 2015 dated 14-12-2015.

3. Sri.Soumendu Mukaherjee,IPS., Director (Security & Vigilance), KSRTC, Bengaluru. and Dr.B.A. Mahesh, IPS., Director (Security & Vigilance), BMTC, Bangalore have been appointed as Directors on the Board of KSRTC vide Government Notification No: ¸ÁjE 14 ¸Á¸ÀA¸ÉÃ 2015

dated:27-04-2015.

4. Sri. B.N.S. Reddy, IPS., Director (Security & Vigilance), KSRTC, Bengaluru. was appointed as Director on the Board of KSRTC vide Government Notification No: ¸ÁjE 06 ¸Á¸ÀA¸ÉÃ 2016

dated 23-01-2016.

5. Sri. H.S. Ashokananda, IAS., Managing Director, NEKRTC, Gulbarga was appointed as Director on the Board of KSRTC vide Government Notification No: ¸ÁjE 18 ªÁF¸ÉÃ 2015

dated 01-08-2015.

6. Smt. R. Vinoth Priya. IAS., Managing Director, NWKRTC, Hubli was appointed as Director on the Board of KSRTC vide Government Notification No: ¸ÁjE 30 ªÁF¸ÉÃ 2015 dated

28-10-2015.

7. Smt. Salma K Fahim, IAS., Director( P & E), KSRTC, Bengaluru. was appointed as Director on the Board of KSRTC vide Government Notification No: ¸ÁjE 21 ¸Á¸ÀA¸ÉÃ 2015 dated

24-07-2015


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8. Sri.A.G. Bhat, KAS (Supertime Scale), Director( P & E), KSRTC, Bengaluru. was appointed as Director on the Board of KSRTC vide Government Notification No: ¸ÁjE 01 ¸Á¸ÀA¸ÉÃ 2016

dated 11-01-2016.

With the above changes, the following was the composition of the Board of Directors of K.S.R.T.C. as on 31-03-2016.

Sl. No. Name & Address Official / Non-official

1 SRI. RAMALINGAREDDY, Hon’ble Minister for Transport, Govt. of Karnataka and Hon’ble Chairman, KSRTC, Central Office, Bengaluru.

CHAIRMAN (Non-official)

2 Dr. LOHIT D. NAIKAR, Hon’ble Vice Chairman, KSRTC, Central Office, Bengaluru.

VICE-CHAIRMAN (Non-official)

3 SRI.I.S.N. PRASAD, IAS., Principal Secretary to Government, Finance Department, Government of Karnataka, Vidhana Soudha, Bengaluru.

DIRECTOR (Official)

4 Dr. E.V. RAMANA REDDY, IAS., Principal Secretary to Government, Transport Department, Government of Karnataka, M.S Buildings, Bengaluru.

DIRECTOR (Official)

5 SRI. RAJENDER KUMAR KATARIA, IAS., Managing Director, KSRTC, Central Office, Bengaluru.

DIRECTOR (Official)

6 DR.EKROOP CAUR, IAS., Managing Director, BMTC, Central Office, Bengaluru.

DIRECTOR (Official)

7 SRI. B.N.S.REDDY, IPS., Director (Security & Vigilance), KSRTC, Central Office, Bengaluru.

DIRECTOR (Official)

8 SRI. ASHOKANANDA, IAS., Managing Director, NEKRTC, Central Office, Kalburgi.

DIRECTOR (Official)

9 DR. RAMEGOWDA, IAS., Commissioner, Transport and Road Safety, BMTC – TTMC Building, Shanthinagar, Bengaluru.

DIRECTOR

(Official)


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10 Dr. B.A. MAHESH, IPS., Director (Security & Vigilance), BMTC, Central Office, Bengaluru

DIRECTOR (Official)

11 SMT.R.VINOTH PRIYA, IAS., Managing Director, NWKRTC, Central Office, Hubli.

DIRECTOR (Official)

12

SRI. A.G. BHAT,KAS ( Super time Scale), Director (Personnel & Environment), KSRTC, Central Office, Bengaluru.

DIRECTOR (Official)

1 Metropolitan Commissioner, BMRDA, Government of Karnataka, No.1, Ali Asker Road, Bengaluru .

INVITEE

(Official)

1. NUMBER OF MEETINGS CONDUCTED, SUBJECTS PLACED AND RESOLUTIONS PASSED DURING 2015-16 :

Four meetings of the Board of Directors were conducted during the year 2015-16. During the said period, 117 subjects were placed before the Board and 116 resolutions were passed including one resolution passed by circular.

2.4 MAIN COMMITTEE:

No Main Committee was constituted during the year 2015-16

Statement showing the information regarding the number of Board meetings attended by the Directors/Invitee during the year 2015-16 is shown in Schedule-A.

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CHAPTER-3 ADMINISTRATION

3.1 SET-UP:

During the year 2015-16, no new depot was commissioned, thus as on 31-03-2016, KSRTC had 15 Divisions (14 operating Divisions and Kempegowda Bus Station Division) with 78 Depots under its jurisdiction.

During the year 2015-16 four new bus stations were started at Huliyurdurga attached to Tumkur Division on 7-1-2016, Hunsur old bus station, Kattemaralwadi and Bilikere attached to Mysore ® Division on 14-11-2015 and the bus Station at Puttur which has been constructed through public private partner ship (PPP) has been commissioned.

Further, new control points at Tiruchi, K.R.Puram, Calicut, Ernakulam and H.D.Kote hand post were started during the year under report. New Divisional Works Shop have been constructed in Puttur division on 09-01-2016.

With this, the Corporation had 78 depots, 150 bus stations, 68 control points and 27 rural wayside shelters under its network of operations spread over 15 divisions (14 operating divisions and one Kempegowda bus station division) as at the end of 31-03-2016. The divisionwise information regarding number of depots, bus stations and control points as on 31-03-2016 are furnished in Table –1 and their list in Schedule-B respectively.

TABLE -1

Sl. No. Division No. of

depots No. of bus stations

No. of control points

1 Bengaluru © 6 1 13 2 Ramanagar 6 9 4 3 Tumakuru 7 17 4 4 Kolar 5 5 5 5 Chikkaballapura 5 7 6 6 MCTD 4 5 5 7 Mysuru (Rural) 6 15 1 8 Mandya 6 14 5 9 Chamarajanagar 4 7 4

10 Hassan 6 15 0 11 Chikkamagalur 5 17 2 12 Mangalore 5 2 7 13 Puttur 4 12 7 14 Davanagere 9 18 3 15 KBS -- 6 2

TOTAL 78 150 68


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3.2. STAFF POSITION AND STAFF RATIO:

3.2.1 Staff position:

There were 37129 permanent employees on roll on 31-03-2016 as against 37326 employees as on 31-03-2015 in the Corporation. The categorywise break-up of total staff is given in Table-2.

TABLE-2

Sl. No. Category No. of Employees

As on 31.03.2016 As on 31.03.2015

a) b)

Regular Employees Class-I and II Officers Class-III and IV Officials: Driver Conductor Drivers-cum-Conductor Traffic Supervisor Mechanical Administration Civil Engineering Printing Press

345

10719 4008

12112 1220 5477 3153

59 36

366

10016 4413

12283 1215 5681 3249

61 42

Total Class-III & IV 36784 36960

Total Regular Employees (a+b) 37129 37326

The strength of Class-I & II officers was 345 and accounted for 0.93% of the total permanent staff of the Corporation. The ratio of officers to staff was 1:107 as on 31-3-2016.

3.2.2 Recruitment:

During the year under report there was no recruitment of employees in the Corporation.

3.2.3 Staff ratio:

The total staff strength (regular) working in the Corporation was 37129 for operating 7626 schedules as at the end of the year. The divisional staff ratio per schedule was 4.70. The overall staff ratio of the Corporation per schedule (including the staff employed at the regional workshops and other central units) increased to 4.87 as on 31-03-2016 from 4.85 which was on 31-03-2015. The details of staff ratio as on the last day of the year under report with comparative figures for the previous year are given in Table-3. The divisionwise staff ratio per schedule per vehicle held, per vehicles on road and effective kilometers performed per employee per day are given at Appendix-5.


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TABLE-3

Sl. No. Units

As on 31.3.2016 As on 31.3.2015

Staff Staff Ratio per Sch. Staff Staff Ratio

per Sch.

1 2 3

Operating divisions Regional workshops Other central units

35880 443 806

4.70 0.06 0.11

35987 480 859

4.68 0.06 0.11

Total 37129 4.87 37326 4.85

As at the end of the year, there were 7186 employees belonging to SC and 1869 employees belonging to ST on the rolls accounting to 19.35% and 5.03% respectively to total employees. The categorywise working position of the SC and ST employees in the Corporation as on 31-03-2016 is indicated in Table - 4.

TABLE-4

Sl. No.

Category

Employees as on 31-03-2016

Employees as on 31-03-2015.

Total SC ST Total SC ST

1 2

Class-I & II Officers Class-III & IV Officials: 1. Traffic: 1. Driver, Conductor & Dr.-cum-Conductor. 2. Traffic Supervisory 3. Mechanical 4. Administration & Others

345

26839

1220 5477 3248

65

5241 325

1018 537

10

1329 82

328 120

366

26712

1215 5681 3352

57

5427 258 956 482

11

1397 66

319 98

Total 37129 7186 1869 37326 7180 1891

The details of male and female employees in the Corporation during the year 2015-16 and 2014-15 is given in Table -4a.

TABLE -4a.

Year

Running staff (Driver/ Cond/

Dri.-Cum-Cond.)

Work shop staff

Officers (Admn.) Supervisors

Others (Non-

supervisor) Male Female Total

2014-15 26712 5681 366 850 3717 34576 2750 37326

2015-16 26839 5477 345 529 3639 34466 2663 37129

3.3 TRAINING SCHEME AND FACILITIES:

During the year 2015-16 training to employees and officers belonging to various categories was imparted in all the three training institutes of the Corporation situated at Bengaluru, Mysore and Hassan. The details of number of officers and employees trained are given in Table- 4b.


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Table-4b

Sl. No. Category Number of trainees

1 Officer 60

2 Driver 4942

3 Driver-cum-Conductor 305

4 Mechanical 1217

5 Other category 2409

6 Sponsored to other agencies like CIRT, NPC, IPE,DPE,NIPM etc. 164

Total 9097

Details of Foreign tour under various schemes, Projects to students and training to private drivers.

1. One officer was sent to Istanbul (Turkey) to attend Policy Board Meeting of UITP sponsored by ASRTU.

2. One officer was sent to South Korea to attend Innovations in Data analysis Programme sponsored by IBRD/IDA

3. 3 students of various courses such as BBM , MBA , M.Com, M.Sc, MCA, BE and P.hd were permitted at central office to prepare project reports for their academic purpose.

4. 1295 private persons and sponsored candidates were trained in HPV driving on payment of prescribed fee.

3.4 DISCIPLINARY CASES AND THEIR DISPOSAL :

The details of disciplinary cases and their disposals during the year 2015-16 as compared to previous year are shown in Table-5.

TABLE – 5

Sl. No. Particulars 2015-16 2014-15

1 No. of cases pending as on the last day of the year 4510 9812

2

No. of cases detected during the year a) Conductors b) Drivers c) Drivers-cum-Conductor d) Other Staff

30126 5735

31539 4582

35337 6220

33115 4244

Total (a to d) 71982 78916

3

No. of cases finalized: a) Dismissed/ Discharged/ Terminated/Removed b) Suspended {As a specific punishment} c) Fined d) Other punishments

502

316

51637 19898

536

392

63787 19503

Total (a to d) 72353 84218

4 No. of cases pending as on the last day of the year 4139 4510


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Unit heads are the disciplinary authorities for major punishment on class – III & IV employees working in the units (excluding supervisory staff). The depot managers and other divisional level officers are empowered to impose minor penalties on class-III & IV employees coming under their administrative control.

3.5 RULES & REGULATIONS OF KSRTC:

The following rules/regulations are in force in KSRTC.

1. KSRTC (Cadre & Recruitment) Regulations 1982.

2. KSRTC Servants (Conduct & Discipline) Regulations 1971.

3. KSRTC Rules 1961.

4. KSRTC Employees Leave Rules 1964

5. KSRTC Gratuity Regulations (01-04-1957).

6. KSRTC Employees (Performance Appraisal Report) Regulations 1985.

7. KSRTC Employees Contributory Provident Fund Regulations 1968.

2. KSRTC Employees (Medical Attendance) Regulations 1970.

3. KSRTC Employees (Promotion and Pay) Regulations 1980.

4. KSRTC Employees (Compulsory/Voluntary Retirement) Regulations 1984.

5. KSRTC Employees (Premature Retirement) Regulations 1983.

6. KSRTC Employees (Deputation outside India) Regulations 1977.

7. KSRTC Servants (Payment of Advance for purchase of Motor Car/Cycle/Scooter & Bicycles) Regulations 1976.

8. KSRTC (In-Service Recruitment for Class II Officers posts) Scheme 1997.

9. Grant of Extra-ordinary Leave without Wages to the Employees of the Corporation Scheme.

10. KSRTC (In-Service Recruitment for Class-III Supervisory posts) Scheme 2009

11. KSRTC employees House Building/House purchase Loan Advance Scheme 1979.

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CHAPTER-4 OPERATIONS

4.1 NATIONALISATION SCHEME:

During the year 2015-16, no new scheme of nationalization was taken up. However, the repeal of the Contract Carriages (Acquisition) Act 1976 and 2003 by the Government allowing private operators to operate as contract carriages throughout the state is continued. Out of 8043 villages in nationalized sector the Corporation has provided services to 7992 villages (99.4%), in Non- nationalized sector out of 11962 villages services were provided to 6328 villages(52.9%). Out of the total 20005 villages in both nationalized and non-nationalized sector, services were provided to 14320 villages and the total services provided is in the order of 71.6.%.

4.2 OPERATIONS:

1. Operational jurisdiction of the Corporation is in 17 districts (106 Taluks) in the State of Karnataka.

2. Major part of operations is in rural area.

3. Operated 7626 schedules covering 2844197 Kms per day as on 31-03-2016 as against 7697 schedules and 2867977 Kms as on 31-03-2015.

4. In Mysore city, 279 city, 112 suburban and 31 Volvo (city) services were operated. City services were also operated in other cities during the year i.e 45 city services in Tumkur, 8 city services in Kolar and 6 city services in KGF, 10 city services in Mandya, 22 city services in Hassan, 9 city services in Chikkamagalur, 36 city services (including 10 Volvo services) in Mangalore and 19 city services in Davangere were operated.

4.3 ROUTES, ROUTE KMs, SCHEDULES & SCHEDULED KMs:

The Corporation operated 5855 routes with an average route length of 92.3 Kms as on 31-03-2016.

The details of routes, route kilometers, schedules and scheduled kms. operated as on 31-03-2016 with comparative figures of previous year are given in Table-6 and the divisionwise details are given at Appendix-1.

TABLE-6

Sl. No.

Factor As on 31st March

Variation over previous year

2015-16 2014-15 Actual % age

1 No. of routes 5855 5929 -74 -1.2

2 Route kilometers 540165 556663 -16498 -3.0

3 Avg. route length (in kms.) 92.3 93.9 -1.6 -1.7

4 No. of schedules 7626 7697 -71 -0.9

5 Daily schedule Kms. 2844197 2867977 -23780 -0.8


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4.4 INTER-STATE ROUTES:

Operation of inter-state services on reciprocal basis was continued during the year 2015-16 also. The details of operation of inter-state services on reciprocal basis with the Seven neighbouring states are indicated in table – 7.

TABLE – 7

Sl. No State No.of routes No.of

schedules Sch. Kms operated

with in the state Sch. Kms operated Out side the state

Total Scheduled

kms. 1 Maharashtra 21 55 28848 11344 40192 2 Andhra Pradesh 134 370 111522 77661 189183 3 Tamilnadu 137 387 69199 92174 161373 4 Kerala 64 165 28244 29391 57635 5 Goa 7 20 8307 1772 10079 6 Pondicherry 2 4 280 2168 2448 7 Telangana 12 52 8694 10162 18856

Total 377 1053 255094 224672 479766

4.5 CITY/ SUBURBAN SERVICES:

City/Suburban services are in operation in the city of Mysore. City services were continued in the cities of Tumkur, Kolar, KGF, Mandya, Hassan, Chikkamagalore, Mangalore and Davanagere during the year 2015-16. Operation of City/Suburban schedules as on 31-03-2016 represented 4.67% of the total scheduled kms. The extent of City/Sub-urban operations by the Corporation as on 31-03-2016 is indicated in Table-8.

TABLE – 8

Sl. No.

City As on 31.03.2016

Routes Route kms Schedules Scheduled

kms.

1 Mysore 349 6462 422 100705 2 Tumkur 31 240 45 8593 3 Kolar 8 59 8 1709 4 KGF 2 32 6 1390

5 Mandya 13 147 10 2859 6 Hassan 20 176 22 3830 7 Chikkamagalur 9 114 9 1342 8 Mangalore 23 420 36 8617 9 Davanagere 13 127 19 3910 Total 468 7777 577 132955 % to total services 8.0 1.4 7.6 4.67


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4.6 MOFUSSIL SERVICES :

Mofussil services operated by the Corporation were scheduled to cover 2711242 Kms daily as at the end of the year under report, which formed 96.33% of the total operations. Besides the operation of ordinary services in rural areas, the Corporation operated some of the services as Express, Semi-deluxe, Rajahamsa, Rajahamsa A/C, Karnataka Vaibhav , A/C Sleeper, Corona Sleeper, Non- A/C Sleeper, Airavatha (Volvo/Benz), Airavatha club class (Multi axleVolvo/Benz), Airavatha Diamond class (Multi axle Scania) and Fly bus services. The extent of such operations as on 31-03-2016 are shown in Table –9.

TABLE – 9

Sl. No.

Type of service Schedule kms.

% to total mofussil services

% to total operations

1 Ordinary 870794 32.11 30.62

2 Express 1459352 53.83 51.31

3 Semi deluxe 1774 0.07 0.06

4 Rajahamsa 111285 4.10 3.91

5 Rajahamsa A/C 700 0.03 0.02

6 Karnataka vaibhav 22378 0.83 0.79

7 Corona 2258 0.08 0.08

8 Corona sleeper 21041 0.78 0.74

9 Non- A/C sleeper 29952 1.10 1.05

10 Airavat (Volvo/Benz) 86581 3.19 3.04

11 Airavat club class (Multi Axle Volvo/Benz) 86149 3.18 3.03

12 Airavat Diamond class (Scania) 14624 0.54 0.52

13 Fly bus 4354 0.16 0.15 Total 2711242 100.00 95.33

4.6.1 Long Distance and Night Services:

The Corporation continued to operate long distance services providing direct and quick transportation between Bengaluru and various district headquarters and other important places within the state and in the neighbouring states. 1264 long distance routes with route length ranging from 120 Kms to 1062 Kms were in operation as on 31-03-2016. Some of the long distance services were operated as night services connecting all district headquarters besides other important places in and outside the state.

4.6.2 Express and Non-stop Services :

Express services are continued to be operated by the Corporation with limited number of stops to provide quick and direct transport facility with fare slightly higher than the ordinary services with a view to reduce journey time and avoid change over. Non-stop services have also been continued to be operated on selected routes where direct passengers are more, to reduce the journey time, which also cause savings on


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staff cost as these services are operated by deploying Driver –cum-Conductor i.e, without Conductor, (eg. Bengaluru - Mysore, Bengaluru-Tumkur, Bengaluru - Kolar, Bengaluru - KGF and Bengaluru – Chennai etc.,), totaling to 139 services as on 31-03-2016. 3452 Express services were in operation as on 31-03-2016,covering 149352 Kms. daily, accounting 53.83% of the daily kms. operated on mofussil routes by the Corporation.

4.6.3 Premier Services:

To meet the needs of affluent sections of the travelling public and also to provide a comfortable journey particularly during night, the Corporation has operated 252 Rajahamsa , 2 Rajahamsa A/C, 43 Karnataka Vaibhav, 80 Non A/C Sleeper, 46 A/C sleeper, 5 Corona, 179 Airavatha (Volvo), 4 Airavatha Benz, 130 Airavatha Club class (Multi axle Volvo), 16 Airavatha Club class (Multi axle Mercedez) , 6 Fly bus, 20 Airavatha Diamond class (Scania), 41 Volvo (City), 189 City, 154 Semi Low Floor and 112 Suburban services as on 31-03-2016.

4.7 Public Private Partnership :

Private agents are appointed to book tickets in advance through computerized and manual system in Karnataka and neighbouring states of Tamilnadu, Kerala, Goa, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Pondicherry.

4.8 FARE STRUCTURE: The details of fare structure during the year 2015-16, wef 09/10-01-2015 is furnished in Schedule-‘C’.

4.9 ADVANCE BOOKING & RESERVATION FACILITIES: To enable passengers to avail ticket at their locality, the system of AWATAR (Any Where Any Time Advance Reservation of tickets) for advance booking of seats throughout the state of Karnataka and also at important places in neighbouring states was continued during the year also.

As at the end of 31-3-2016, there were totally 717 counters. 122 counters(19 in Bengaluru city, 30 in other places of KSRTC, 48 counters in the area of NWKRTC, 14 counters in the area of NEKRTC, one counter in Telangana, one counter in Andhra Pradesh, 2 counters in Maharashtra, 4 counters in Tamilnadu, and 3 counters in Kerala) are run by the three Corporations.

595 counters (133 in Bengaluru city, 166 in KSRTC jurisdiction, 47 in NWKRTC jurisdiction, 83 in NEKRTC jurisdiction, 163 in the areas out side the state of Karnataka, 1 each of Bengaluru one, Master franchisee and Mobile one) are run by the private agents.

Out of 163 counters in the neighbouring states, 30 counters are in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, 7 counters in Goa, 42 counters in Kerela, 34 counters in Maharastra, 4 counters in Pondichery and 46 counters in Tamilnadu, mainly to facilitate the general public to reserve their seats in advance for their journey where traffic generation is considerably high.


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Advance booking of tickets facility is available with full fare plus the reservation charge of Rs.5/- per seat for fare less than or equal to Rs. 200/- and Rs.10/-for fare more than Rs.200/-. The system of booking of seats 30 days in advance at the window booking counters in bus stands and private reservation counters has been continued. During the year 2015-16 total no of seats booked through AWATAR was 7953037 and revenue earned was Rs.479.68 crore as against 7953084 seats and revenue earned of Rs. 472.43 crores respectively during previous year. The average seats booked and revenue realized per day from AWATAR advance reservation system during the year 2015-16 is as under.

Factors Avg. no. of

seats booked/day

Avg. revenue/day

Total bookings 21730 131.06 lakhs

On line booking 10375 71.04 lakhs

4.10 PROGRESS OF OPERATIONS:

The Corporation continued further consolidation of existing services during the year Divisionwise achievement in key areas of operation is furnished in Appendix-2. Some salient features are summarized in the following paragraphs.

a) Kms covered :

The details regarding kms operated with comparative figures of previous year are shown in Table – 10.

TABLE – 10

Sl. No.

Particulars Period

Variation over previous year

2015-16 2014-15 Actual %age

1

Kms.operated: (in lakhs) a)Gross b)Effective c) Dead

10082.83

9683.57 399.26

10312.09

9880.66 431.43

-229.26 -197.09 -32.17

-2.22 -1.99 -7.46

2 Percentage of dead Kms.to effective kms. 4.12 4.37 -0.25 -5.72

3 Avg.daily service kms. (in lakhs) 26.46 27.07 -0.61 -2.25

The total service kms operated during 2015-16 is 9683.57 lakhs as against 9880.66 lakhs kms operated during 2014-15. There is decrease in average daily service kms during 2015-16. The percentage dead kms to effective kms for the year 2015-16 was 4.12 as compared to 4.37 of 2014-15.


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b) Vehicles & Passengers travelled :

The details of vehicles held in the operating divisions and their utilization during the year 2015-16 with the comparative figures of previous year are shown in Table-11.

TABLE-11

Sl. No Particulars

During the year Variation over previous year

2015-16 2014-15 Actual %age

1 Avg.no.of buses held in operating divisions 8125.2 8279.3 -154.1 -1.9

2 Avg.no.of buses on road. 7400.5 7572.4 -171.9 -2.3

3 %age fleet utilization (on operational fleet).

91.1 91.5 -0.4 -0.44

4 Avg.vehicle utilization (in Kms.) 1. Gross 2. Effective

372 358

373 357

-1 1

-0.27 0.28

5 Avg. seating capacity 51.4 51.4 -- --

6 Total no. of passengers carried (in lakhs)

10103.63 10349.06 -245.43 -2.4

7 Avg.no.of passengers carried/day (in lakhs)

27.61 28.35 -0.74 -2.6

The average number of buses held by divisions decreased from 8279.3 to 8125.2 The average number of buses on road also decreased by 171.9 or -2.3% i.e. from 7572.4 during 2014-15 to 7400.5 during 2015-16. The percentage fleet utilization decreased to 91.1% during 2015-16 from 91.5% of 2014-15. The average vehicle utilization on gross kms decreased to 372 from 373 of 2014-15 likewise the vehicle utilization on effective kms increased to 358 from 357 of 2014-15. The divisionwise analysis of vehicles held and fleet utilization is shown in Appendix-4. The average seating capacity stood at 51.4 during 2015-16. The total number of passengers carried decreased to 10103.63 lakhs during 2015-16 from 10349.06 lakhs which was during 2014-15. The average passengers carried per day decreased to 27.61 lakhs from 28.35 lakhs. The divisionwise details of breakdowns, accidents, regularity, % load factor and passengers traveled are shown in Appendix-8.

3. Luggage and Parcel Transport:

The luggage rate charged during the year 2015-16 were as follows. Personal luggage upto 30 Kgs per adult passenger and 15 Kgs per child passenger were allowed free of charges . The luggage in excess of these limits was charged at the rates given below.

i) Luggage rates : 50 Ps. per unit of 20 Kgs upto one stage or part thereof subject to a minimum of Rs.5.00.

ii) Newspapers : Rs.1.50 per unit of 5 Kgs. or part thereof irrespective of distance.


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4. Cloak Rooms and Catering Establishments:

Cloak room facilities have been provided at some important bus stations with the objective of enabling the travelling public to keep their luggage in safe custody. Articles of baggage have been accepted for safe custody as per the rates shown below:

Sl. No.

Particulars Per package

(Rs.) Locker (Rs.)

I Upto 30Kgs. for a span of 12 hours (suitcase, trunk, bedding, etc,)

2.00 5.00

II For next 12 hours or part thereof 3.00 6.00

III For each subsequent 12 hrs. 5.00 8.00

Basic amenities such as toilets, drinking water etc., have been provided in all the bus stations constructed and maintained by the Corporation.

130 refreshment rooms, 7 tea stalls, 10 cloak rooms, 64 ATM counters and 1041 other commercial establishments were provided to cater to the needs of traveling public. The details of amenities and facilities provided as on 31-03-2016 and 31-03-2015 are given in Table-12.

TABLE – 12

Sl. No.

Amenities As on

31-03-2016 31-03-2015

1

Bus Stations 1. Permanent 2. Temporary/control points

150 68

146 66

2 Rural wayside shelters 27 30

3 City pickup shelters 306 123

4 Refreshment rooms 130 93

5 Tea stalls 7 10

6 Cloak rooms 10 9

7 ATM counters 64 58

8 Others (stalls for soft drinks, fruits, pan beeda, books and stationery etc.,)

1041 1020

e) Casual Contract Services: In addition to regular passenger services, the Corporation has provided buses to public on contract basis on payment of prescribed charges based either on kms. or on duration, and at concessional rates to bonafide students for educational purpose. The rates for hiring of buses on casual contract as on 31-03-2016 are furnished in schedule –D.


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f) Concession/Season Passes & Free Passes: The various Concessions extended by the Corporation to different categories of commuters are detailed below.

1. Student Bus Passes :

The maximum distance for issue of student bus pass from residence to school/college is 60 Kms.

i. Primary school students : Free for 10 months (upto 60 Kms.) upto VII standard

ii VIII, IX & X standard : Rs.300/- for 5 months (upto 60 Kms.) school (boys) students. Rs.600/- for 10 months ( - “- )

iii VIII, IX & X standard : Rs.200/- for 5 months (upto 60 Kms.) school (girls) students. Rs.400/- for 10 months ( - “- )

iv College students : Rs.450/- for 5 months (upto 60 Kms.) Rs.900/- for 10 months (- “- )

v I.T.I. students : Rs.575/- for 6 months (upto 60 Kms.) Rs.1150/- for 12 months (- “- )

vi College students (Professional : Rs.700/- for 5 months (upto 60 Kms.) Course). Rs.1400/- for 10 months (- “- )

vii Evening college/Ph.D., students : Rs.1200/- for 10 months (upto 60 Kms.)

viii Processing charges : Rs.80/- per pass each time+ARF 50 Rs.

2. 50% concessional travel facility to the drama Troupes / Yakshagana troupes sponsored by the Karnataka Sangeetha Nataka Academy.

3. Free passes to Olympians, Para Olympians and Arjuna awardees to travel in KSRTC buses.

4. Free bus passes issued to National Showrya Prashasti award winning children’s upto the age of 18 years.

5. Free travel facility to all Freedom Fighters in all type of buses( including Volvo buses), within and outside the State. For freedom fighters aged 75 years and above, free travel is allowed along with a companion.

6. Concessional travel facility to all the Physically challenged persons (for all four Corporations) within the state with a restricted travel upto 100 Kms from the address given by them.

7. Free travelling coupons of Rs.2000/- will be given to wife/ widows of freedom fighters to travel with in the State

8. 25% concession in fare for senior citizens of age 60 years and above.

9. Free travel facility to the totally blind persons to travel within the State


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10. Free traveling facility to Ex- MLAs & MLCs to travel within State and Inter State in any bus along with a companion.

11. Free traveling facility to sitting MLAs & MLCs to travel within State and Inter State in any bus along with a Karnataka. They are issued with a Gold Card on production of which they can travel in any type of bus within the State

12. Free passes are given to accredited journalists and permitted to travel throughout the State in all type of buses including premium services.

13. Home guards (in uniform) are allowed to travel free in city services while on duty.

14. In mofussil services, commuters with monthly passes are allowed to travel in a month by paying an amount equivalent to 20 round trips fare of ordinary services between any two destinations, subject to a maximum distance of 149.5 Kms.

15. Daily passes for the commuters of Mysore city for travel in city services. The pass priced at Rs.50/- each is valid for a day upto midnight.

16. Free bus passes to National awardees writers/artists proposed by Kannada and Culture department of Government.

17. Free bus passes to dependants of martyrs i.e, parents, wife and dependent children for a period of 10 years( introduced from 25-07-2012)

18. Integrated KSRTC- BMTC daily passes are being issued in surrounding places of Bengaluru i.e Kanakapura, Harohalli, Channapatna, Ramanagar, Magadi, Kunigal, Tumkur, Gowribidanur, Chikkaballapura, Shidlaghatta, Chintamani, Kolar, Sira, Gubbi, Turuvekere, Madhugiri, Koratagere, Dabaspet, Mandya, Maddur, Malavalli, K.M. Doddi, Nagamangala, Santhebachahalli, Melkote, K.R.Pet, Vijipura, to enable buyers to travel in KSRTC as well as BMTC buses, which is valid until midnight

19. Mysore city integrated daily passes are issued in surrounding places of Mysore city i.e Periyapatna, Hunsur, K.R.Nagar, Sargur, H.D.Kote, Malavalli, Bannur, Mandya, K.R.Pet, Gundlupet, Chamarajanagar, Kollegal, Nanjangudu, Pandavapura to travel in Mysore city buses as well as KSRTC which is valid until midnight.

20. Free bus passes are being issued to the victims of Endosulfan along with a companion. Permitted to travel in ordinary and Express services, 50% of the amount will be reimbursed by the Government.

21. Chartered contract services are given to schools/colleges/industrial establishments/private factories, educational institutions at the following rates.

Sl. No. Type of bus

Rate per km(Rs.)

1 Karnataka Sarige 35.00

2 Semi low floor 36.00

3 Rajahamsa (Exective) 40.00

4 Volvo/semi slp single axle mark-1 & 2 50.00

For schools: Discount of Rs.2/- per km on the above rates For colleges: Discount of Re.1/- per km on the above rates


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g) Concession for KSRTC Employees:

i) All KSRTC class-III & IV employees working at places where city services have been operated are issued with free passes to report to the place of work and return to their home as per the industrial truce settlement.

ii) Free passes without restriction of distance are issued to all employees and their families once in a year to enable them to travel to any place in buses operated by KSRTC.

iii) All school and college-going children of KSRTC employees are issued with free passes to attend schools and colleges in city and mofussil services.

h) Public Complaints:

1650 various types of public complaints were received through post and 3442 various types of public complaints were received through e-mail totaling to 5092 received during the year. The rate of public complaints per lakh passengers was 0.50. All complaints received from the public are carefully investigated and suitable action taken wherever warranted.

Suggestions received from the commuters for improvement of the services have always been given due consideration and appropriate action taken to implement them wherever such suggestions are acceptable.

i) Special Services for Jathras/Fairs:

The Corporation operates special services on occasions like fairs, jathras, religious/cultural/ social celebrations etc., in all operating divisions to cater to the increased transport needs. During the year, special services were operated (on 49 occasions) covering 26.81 lakhs kilometers and realised an amount of Rs.921.42 lakhs achieving an EPKM of 3436.9 Paise.

j) Quality of Services:

The performance particulars with regard to quality of services provided during the year 2015-16 and the comparative figures for previous year are furnished below in Table –13. The divisionwise analysis is indicated in Appendix – 8.

The overall rate of breakdown per 10000 Kms was 0.03 and rate of accidents was 0.11 per lakhs Kms.

TABLE – 13

Sl. No.

Particulars 2015-16 2014-15

1 %age Regularity 1. Departures 2. Arrivals

94.5 94.9

95.4 95.5

2 Breakdown per 10000 Kms. 0.03 0.04

3 Accident per lakhs Kms. 0.11 0.12


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The accident details for the year 2015-16 compared to 2014-15 are shown in Table –14.

TABLE-14 Sl. No. Nature of accident 2015-16 2014-15

1 Fatal 271 272

2 Major 121 160

3 Minor/Insignificant 708 775

4 Total 1100 1207

5 Rate per lakhs kms. 0.11 0.12

6 No of fatalities 328 332

7 No of persons injured 1412 1663

4.11 PASSENGER AMENITIES :

1. For the benefit of traveling public, advance reservation counters are provided in all bus stations located at the jurisdictional district and taluk headquarters within the state and neighbouring states.

2. Online booking and mobile booking for advance reservation of tickets have been continued.

3. Long distance services are operated from MCTC Bus Stand and Shantinagar bus stand to decongest Kempegowda Bus Stand in view of metro work in progress. Different boarding points are provided in 37 locations in Bengaluru, one location in Mysore and 5 locations in Mangalore.

4. Advance booking is allowed 30 days before the date of journey and passengers can book ticket round the clock.

5. Guest user booking (booking by unregistered users) can be availed for online booking.

6. Conversion of counter/ franchisee tickets to e-tickets/ m-tickets is in progress wherein passengers can show ID proof and e-ticket or m-ticket for the journey.

7. Air-conditioned passenger waiting lounges are provided at Mysore Road Bus Station and Shantinagar Bus Station for the travelling public of premier services.

8. Advance booking of tickets is also allowed through “Bengaluru one” centers (e-governance project of the Government of Karnataka).

9. Advance booking of tickets is also allowed through “Mobile one application” centers (e-governance project of the Government of Karnataka).

10. To expand advance booking network, booking of KSRTC tickets is introduced through “Bus India” portal, an initiative of the Central Institute of Road Transport (CIRT).

11. To expand franchisee network and to attract more number of applicants, the minimum educational qualification is relaxed from degree to SSLC for locations within the State. The minimum educational qualification criterion for places outside the State is removed.

12. Manual booking agents are appointed at 4 selected places for improving advance booking network.


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13. AWATAR Cell has been working at MCTC Bus stand, Mysore road working 15 hours on all 365 days, to provide operational support to Divisions / Depots / Bus Stations/ booking counters and assistance to passengers on advance bookings, e-booking transactions and service enquiries.

14. Discount of 10% on return journey fare is continued when both onward and return journey tickets are booked in single transaction.

15. Group discount of 5% on fare is continued when four or more seats are booked in a single ticket.

16. Free travel facility to passengers having advance reservation tickets to travel from their residential locality to the bus station, two hours before the departure of bus is continued in city services excluding AC services.

17. For safe journey of ladies a separate quota of seats are reserved for ladies and this facility is provided in advance booking for all premier services.

18. Fares are reduced during day time for selected services.

19. SMS facility is utilized for communication of advance booking, cancellation and trip sheet alerts to passengers with advance reservation tickets.

20. Mobile telephone numbers of advance booking passengers are printed on the trip sheets provided to conductor so as to contact passengers, if needed.

21. Booking of buses on casual contract is also introduced in AWATAR system.

22. Pickup points are provided under AWATAR system at various places in Bengaluru, Mangalore, Mysore, Chikkaballapur, Bidadi and various Inter-state places such as Mumbai, Kolhapur, Auragabhad, Karnool, Mantralayam, Trichy, Tanjor, Kumbakonam, Pune, Vellor, Kottayam, Thiruvanathpuram, Kozikode, Shirdi, Hydrabad, Panjim, Madagao, Kannur, Puducherry, Coimbatore and Aleppy etc.

23. Promotional fares are charged on selected routes to maintain parity with private operators and attract passengers to travel in KSRTC buses.

24. For the benefit of travelling public, KSRTC has introduced Fly Bus from Kempegowda

International Airport, Bangalore to Mysore, Mangalore-Udupi-Manipal-Kundapura and back

25. . The fares of Volvo, Benz, Multi -Axle, Corona sleeper services are subject to the condition of variations in passenger traffic and thereby are operated with flexi fares which is considerably lesser than the actual fares permitted to effectively compete with private operators.

26. Reservation of 10% commercial stalls to physically handicapped persons.

27. Accident Relief Fund - payment of Rs.2.50 lakhs as compensation to the dependent of the deceased passenger of KSRTC bus involved in an accident, in addition to regular compensation awarded by MACT.

28. Advance reservation for KSRTC, NWKRTC , NEKRTC and BMTC services can be done through Bengaluru One counters also.


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29 Reserved seats for lady passengers in City, Suburban, Ordinary and Express services. 14 seats are reserved in City and Suburban services and 9 seats in moffusil services like Ordinary and Express services. Two seats are also reserved for lady passengers in Semi-deluxe and higher type of services.

30. Reserved two seats for physically challenged passengers in ordinary and express services where there is no advance reservation facility.

31. Establishment of Control Room at Central Control Station of Mysuru Road Bus Station supervising of Operational information such as Operational Status, Daily Vehicle Position, HSD consumption, Line Checking details, Accident, Breakdowns and Incidents this information is communicated through mails and SMS to Management and Concerned Officials. FCT& call logger facility established for Control Room.

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CHAPTER-5 AUTO ENGINEERING

5.1 FLEET POSITION:

KSRTC added 206 new vehicles to its fleet during 2015-16 and scrapped 290 vehicles which were not fit for operation. During the previous year 2014-15 the Corporation has added 743 new vehicles and scrapped 785 vehicles which were not fit for operation. Thus, as on 31-03-2016 the fleet strength of the Corporation stood at 8090. The number of departmental vehicles such as cars, jeeps, trucks, cranes, vans, etc., held by the Corporation as at the end of the year 2015-16 was 306.

Makewise fleet held as at the end of the year 2015-16 is given in Table – 15. These vehicles were in operation by 78 depots of 14 operating divisions (excluding KBS Division). 14 divisional workshops at respective divisional headquarters to attend heavy body repair, F.C. renewal, reconditioning of major aggregates and processing of tyres etc. Volvo vehicles are being maintained by the Corporation itself.

TABLE-15

Sl. No. Particulars

Vehicles held as on

31-03-2016 31-03-2015

1

Registered passenger buses a) Leyland b) Tata c) Swaraj mazda (Mini) d) Volvo/Volvo city/Volvo M-axle e) Corona f ) Marcopolo g) Mercedez Benz/M- axle h) Semi-low floor i) Scania j) Eicher

2775 4628

3 408 62 -- 30

154 20 10

2711 4822

4 440 56 10 30

154 -- --

Total (a to j) 8090 8227

2

Departmental vehicles 1. Cars/vans 2. Jeeps 3. Trucks 4. Others (water tanker, wrecker, ambulance, training bus, crane, motor cycle.etc.)

87 44

105 70

88 51

108 80

Total (a to d) 306 327

Note : Including 28 vehicles ( Tata-17, Leyland-4, Corona sleeper-3, Semi low floor-1, Volvo-1 and Volvo city-2 held at RWB and 8vehicles (Tata-4, Leyland-1 and Volvo-3) held at RWH.

Makewise and unitwise break-up of passenger buses is furnished in Appendix-3. Makewise, agewise composition of vehicles in terms of Kms. performed is given in Table-16.


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TABLE-16

Sl No.

Age (in lakhs Kms.)

Leyland Tata Volvo Swaraj Mazda

Mercedez Benz

Carona (Ambari)

Semi-low floor Scania Eicher Total

No. % No. % No % No. % No. % No. % No. % No. % No. % No. %

1 0-1 54 2.0 14 0.3 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 2 3.4 0 0.0 0 0.0 10 100.0 80 1.0

2 1-2 124 4.4 110 2.4 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 4 6.8 19 12.4 20 100.0 0 0 277 3.5

3 2-3 149 5.4 366 7.9 0 0.0 2 66.7 0 0.0 0 0.0 46 30.1 0 0.0 0 0 563 7.0

4 3-4 238 8.6 355 7.7 4 1.0 1 33.3 0 0.0 1 1.7 12 7.8 0 0.0 0 0 611 7.6

5 4-5 532 19.2 217 4.7 31 7.7 0 0.0 0 0.0 9 15.2 25 16.3 0 0.0 0 0 814 10.1

6 5-6 486 17.6 333 7.2 13 3.2 0 0.0 0 0.0 16 27.1 46 30.1 0 0.0 0 0 894 11.1

7 6-7 300 10.8 517 11.2 17 4.2 0 0.0 3 10.0 9 15.2 5 3.3 0 0.0 0 0 851 10.6

8 7-7.5 170 6.1 340 7.4 12 3.0 0 0.0 1 3.3 4 6.8 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0 527 6.5

9 7.5 -8 153 5.5 402 8.7 6 1.5 0 0.0 8 26.7 4 6.8 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0 573 7.1

10 8.0-8.5 136 4.9 497 10.8 16 4.0 0 0.0 11 36.7 3 5.1 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0 663 8.2

11 8.5-9 154 5.6 525 11.4 13 3.2 0 0.0 6 20.0 3 5.1 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0 701 8.7

12 9.0-9.5 166 6.0 559 12.1 13 3.2 0 0.0 1 3.3 2 3.4 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0 741 9.2

13 9.5-10.0 58 2.1 251 5.5 15 3.8 0 0.0 0 0.0 1 1.7 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0 325 4.0

14 10.0-11.0 49 1.8 114 2.5 38 9.5 0 0.0 0 0.0 1 1.7 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0 202 2.5

15 11.0-12.0 1 0.0 7 0.2 78 19.4 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0 86 1.1

16 12.0-13.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 70 17.4 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0 70 0.9

17 13.00 and

above 0 0.0 0 0.0 76 18.9 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0 76 1.0

Overall 2770 100.0 4607 100.0 402 100.0 3 100.0 30 100.0 59 100.0 153 100.0 20 100.0 10 100.0 8054 100.0

Avg. age ( in lakhs

km.) 5.74 6.88 10.51 2.83 8.08 5.92 3.83 1.47 0.09 6.59

Note : Excluding 28 vehicles ( Tata-17, Leyland-4, Semi low floor-1, Corona sleeper-3, Volvo-1 and Volvo city-2 held at RWB and 8vehicles (Tata-4, Leyland-1 and Volvo-3) held at RWH.

5.2 PURCHASE OF CHASSIS:

During the year 2015-16 KSRTC has placed purchase orders for supply of 20 Volvo, Eicher Commercial chassis in addition to 146 leyland chassis outstanding against the previous year. The following Table -17 gives details of orders placed, supplied and outstanding against the purchase orders.


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TABLE-17

Make Outstanding

as on 31-03-2015

Ordered during 2015-16

Total Received during 2015-16

Outstanding as on

31-03-2016

A B C D = (B+C) E F = (D-E)

Volvo Eicher (Commercial

vehicle) 0 20 20 20 0

Tata 200* 0 0 0 0

Leyland 146 0 146 146 0

Total 146 20 166 166 0

* The order placed has been cancelled

5.3. PERFORMANCE OF VEHICLES, ASSEMBLIES AND TYRES:

The overall performance of vehicles, assemblies and tyres and Typewise KMPL (HSD) during the year as compared with the previous year is shown in Table-18 and 18a respectively. Also the details of divisionwise performance of KMPL(HSD) , Engine oil KMPL, Tyre life, Battery life, Engine & FIP life are indicated in Appendix-6 and Appendix-9 respectively.

TABLE-18


1 Average age of vehicles as on 31st March (in lakhs Kms.) 6.59 5.66

2 Average age of vehicles as on 31st March (in years.) 4.94 4.23

3 % of vehicles aged more than 9.00 lakhs Kms. for Tata and Leyland and 13.00 lakhs for Volvo, Benz and corona

15.9 4.2

4 Average vehicle utilization a) On Gross Kms. 372 373

b) On Effective Kms. 358 357 5 % Fleet utilization a) Divisional fleet 91.1 91.5 b) Overall fleet (including Regl.Workshops) 90.6 91.0 6 % Vehicles off road during the year a) Operating divisions 4.3 4.3

b) Overall (including Regl.Workshops) 4.3 4.3

7 Rate of breakdown per 10000 Kms.

a) Mechanical 0.03 0.03

b) Other failures 0.00 0.01

c) Total 0.03 0.04

8 KMPL ( HSD) 4.83 4.82


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9 KMPL (Engine Oil top- up) 16097 14427

10

Average life of Tyres (Kms.)

a) New tyre life

1) Nylon

2) Radial

3) Tubless

4) overall

44217

80534

103713

74213

42518

84366

95703

71089

b) Retreaded tyre life

1 ) Nylon

2) Radial

3) Tubless

4) Overall

29097

42489

56245

39474

23568

37127

51782

32587

c) Total tyre life

1) Nylon

2) Radial

3) Tubless

4) Overall

143208

187401

217598

179948

125047

181236

205187

164380

d) Retreadability factor

1) Nylon

2) Radial

3) Tubless

4) Overall

3.41

2.59

2.12

2.74

3.55

2.68

2.24

2.94

11 Average Battery Kms.(in lakhs) 3.33 3.24

12 Average Engine Kms.(in lakhs)

a) New 7.55 7.15

b) Reconditioned 1.83 1.81

13 Average FIP Kms. (in lakhs)

a) New 5.29 5.46

b) Reconditioned 1.28 1.27


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Makewise KMPL details

Table: 18a

5.4 BREAKDOWNS:

During the year, the overall rate of breakdown per 10,000 Kms. was at 0.03 and it was 0.04 during previous year. The causewise analysis of breakdowns is shown in Table-19.

TABLE-19

Sl. No. System

No. of Breakdowns % to total Rate per

10000 Kms

2015-16 2014-15 2015-16 2014-15 2015-16 2014-15

1 Electrical 289 369 10.25 10.61 0.00 0.01

2 Engine (Power) 315 325 11.17 9.34 0.01 0.00

3 Transmission 725 834 25.71 23.99 0.01 0.01

4 Front axle & steering 73 108 2.59 3.11 0.00 0.00

5 Rear axle 125 107 4.43 3.08 0.00 0.00

6 Road wheels 89 85 3.16 2.45 0.00 0.00

7 Brakes 213 270 7.55 7.77 0.00 0.00

8 Spring 94 158 3.33 4.54 0.00 0.00

9 Fuel 163 184 5.78 5.29 0.00 0.00

10 Tyre puncture 244 387 8.65 11.13 0.00 0.01

11 Miscellaneous 490 650 17.38 18.69 0.01 0.01

Total 2820 3477 100.00 100.00 0.03 0.04

Make KMPL

2015-16 2014-15

Tata 4.92 4.91

Leyland 5.10 5.11

Volvo 3.30 3.34

Volvo city 2.54 2.55

Volvo Multi Axle 3.52 3.59

M- Benz 3.61 3.65

Scania 3.83 --

Corona 4.01 4.02

Eicher 5.47 --

Total 4.83 4.82


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5.5 PRODUCTION IN REGIONAL WORKSHOPS:

The Corporation has two Regional Workshops located at Bengaluru and Hassan, in which new buses are constructed in addition to reconditioning of assemblies. The two Regional Workshops have an annual production capacity of about 600 new buses. Shortfall in the production capacity is outsourced either by engaging skilled labour on contract or through outside agencies. The production in Regional Workshops, Bengaluru and Hassan in respect of various items during the year under report as compared with that of the previous year is shown in Table-20.

The details of production in each of the Regional Workshops compared with that of the previous year are furnished in Appendix-7.

TABLE-20

Sl. No. Items

No. of units produced during

2015-16 2014-15

1 New bus bodies 180+26* 293+307*+143**

2

Buses attended for:

a) Reconditioning (HBR) 345 268

b) Major repairs (Accident) 24 99

3

Reconditioning/Repairs of

1. Engine 1. Leyland 2. Tata 3. Others

233 842 --

258 765 --

4. FIP 5. Atomizer 6. Turbo chargers 7. Scrap Engines

1107 6426 938 319

1013 6342 837 752

* Bus body built by private/outside agencies.

5.6 NEW BUS BODIES /VEHICLES:

The Corporation inducted 206 new buses as against the target of 459 buses (Excluding JnNURM city buses) during the year 2015-16. Totally 180 new buses were built in the Regional Workshops of the Corporation at Bengaluru and Hassan, remaining 26 fully built high end AC buses were procured Table-21 indicates the typewise buses constructed by different units during the year 2015-16.


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TABLE-21

Sl. No. Type of bus R.WS,

Bengaluru R.WS,

Hassan

Contract Labour Private/Outside Agencies

Total BNG HSN Bus body

constn. Fully built

bus 1 Mofussil NAL 126 44 -- -- - - 170 2 City 5 5 - - - - 10

3 Corona AC sleeper - - - - - 6 6

4 Scania Multi axle buses - - - - - 20 20

Total 131 49 - - - 26 206

5.7 On Going Projects (JnNURM/AMRUT):

The Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) Government of India under JnNURM-II has sanctioned 545 urban buses to the Corporation.. The Corporation released the purchase order on M/s. Tata Motors limited for supply of 487 urban buses (437 standard Non AC 900 mm floor height urban buses and 50 Midi Non AC 650 mm floor height urban buses). Further purchase order also released on M/s. Ashok Leyland Limited for supply of 26 standard Non AC 900 mm floor height urban buses. The first installment amount released by GOK and GOI is given in the below.

Factors Amount ( Rs. crores) Excluding State taxes

Government of India 64.18

Government of Karnataka 6.93

Total 71.11

Out of 487 Tata urban buses, 10 Tata 12 Mtr. 900 mm. floor height non AC urban buses were taken on trial run at Mysore city. Two rounds of trial run was conducted at Mysore city. The Technical Committee examined performance of the above 10 Tata urban buses and found to be satisfactory. Due to the change in scheme MoUD, GOI has redesignated JnNURM-II scheme as Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) scheme. Under this scheme, central assistance (CA) would be limited to 50% of the approved cost as against the 80% of approved or the actual cost whichever is less. Therefore, the GOK requested for sanction of additional funds for procurement of city buses under JnNURM/AMRUT scheme. The subject was placed before the cabinet and the State cabinet vide order No: 07:2016 dated:08.03.2016 has sanctioned additional fund of Rs.44.41 crores for procurement of 355 Urban buses under JnNURM/AMRUT scheme. The details regarding funds available for procurement of urban buses are furnished below.


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Particulars Amount (Rs. in Crores)

Ist installment released by GOI 64.18

Ist installment including additional sanction by GOK (Ist installment Rs.6.93 + Rs.44.41 funds sought from GOK) 51.34

Share of Urban Local Body (KSRTC) 12.84

Total 128.36

The Corporation has received Rs.71.11crores as 1st instalment from GOK and GOI for which it has earned an interest of Rs.7.75 cores ( upto March 16). The total amount available is Rs.136.11 Crore (Including the estimated interest earned upto March-2016). As could be seen from below the cost for purchase of 354 buses will be Rs. 130.31 crores leaving the balance of Rs.5.80 crores. Details regarding the total amount available and buses proposed for procurement are furnished below.

Make & type of buses Quantity in numbers

Revised rates with Excise duty @ 14.125% (Rs. in lakhs)

Total cost (Rs. in crores)

Tata 900 mm floor height 12 Mtr Urban buses 268 38.77 103.90

Tata 650 mm floor height Midi Urban buses 63 27.80 17.51

Leyland 900 mm floor height 12 Mtr Urban buses 23 38.69 8.90

Total 354 130.31

354 City buses will be allotted to the small and medium town of the KSRTC as mentioned below:

Sl. No Cities No. of Buses

1 Mysore 75

2 Tumkur 30

3 Hassan 25

4 Mandya 30

5 Ramanagara 20

6 KGF + Kolar 26

7 Davanagere 35

8 Bhadravathi 15

9 Shimoga 25

10 Chitradurga 15

11 Mangalore + Udupi 58

Total 354


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10 Tata standard 900mm floor height urban buses, which were on trial operation at Mysore city were allotted to Mysore city Transport Division. 63 Tata Midi 650mm floor height urban buses are at different stage of construction at Tata Motors limited which are being inspected by KSRTC Technical Team.

5.8 Induction of New type city buses for Tier-II & III cities:

• Procurment of 106 city buses sanctioned under SUTF by Directorate of Urban Land Transport, GOK is under process.

• Planning to obtain additional funds for Chikkaballapura and Chikkamagaluru cities by identifying new routes which falls under LPA limites.

• Identification of new city routes in Puttur and Mercera cities is under process.

• Planning to request DULT for sanction of funds to introduce 100 more city buses for small and medium cities of Karnataka

• Out of the 106 city buses, 10 city buses were constructed at KSRTC Regional Workshops and were allotted to Chikkamagaluru Division to operate the same in Chikkamagaluru city.

5.8 TYRE RETREADING PLANTS:

The production details of tyres i.e., tyres processed during the year 2015-16 for resole, repair & resole and repairs in the tyre retreading plants established in different divisions are given below.

Sl. No. Division Resole Repair & Resole Repair Total

1 Bengaluru © 4135 1741 1018 6894

2 Ramanagar 3534 1937 293 5764

3 Tumkur 5054 1588 651 7293

4 Kolar 3422 1244 1052 5718

5 Chikkaballapura 3831 687 520 5038

6 Mysore(city transport) 2828 889 602 4319

7 Mysore® 4912 2874 200 7986

8 Mandya 4052 1583 427 6062

9 Chamarajanagara 4580 1548 123 6251

10 Hassan 6753 895 945 8593

11 Chickmagaluru 6726 452 1093 8271

12 Mangalore 5657 675 312 6644

13 Puttur 7733 561 208 8502

14 Davanagere 5370 1242 1390 8002

Total 68587 17916 8834 95337


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CHAPTER-6 STORES 6.1 STORES INVENTORY: The value of stock of stores material held by the Corporation as on 31-03-2016 and the transactions made during the year 2015-16 vis-a-vis the position during 2014-15 are given in Table - 22.

TABLE – 22

Sl.

No. Particulars

Value (Rs. in lakhs)

2015-16 2014-15

1 Opening balance 3186.17 2870.33

2 Addition due to purchase 121010.76 150016.00

3 Total (1+2) 124196.93 152886.33

4 Consumption during the year 121026.86 149700.15

5 Closing balance 3170.17 3186.17

The inventory holding of stores classified under major heads and the magnitude of the holdings in relation to the fleet strength as at the end of the year 2015-16 with comparative figures of previous year are furnished in Table-23.

TABLE-23

Sl. No.

Classification

Inventory holding as on 31st March

(Rs. in lakhs)

Inventory holding per bus owned as on

31st March (in Rs.)

Magnitude of the inventory held as on 31st March (month’s

consumption) 2015-16 2014-15 2015-16 2014-15 2015-16 2014-15

1 Fuel 917.65 (29.0)

759.54 (23.8) 11343 9232 0.11 0.07

2 Lubricants 235.48 (7.4)

245.04 (7.7) 2911 2978 1.8 1.7

3 Tyres, Tubes & Flaps

158.35 (5.0)

139.90 (4.4) 1957 1700 0.3 0.2

4 Batteries 11.87 (0.4)

11.87 (0.4) 147 144 0.4 0.3

5 Spare Parts 999.51 (31.5)

979.04 (30.7) 12355 11900 1.6 1.7

6 Other Consumables 632.07 (19.9)

814.04 (25.5) 7813 9895 2.0 0.7

7 Tickets, Stationery & Uniform

215.14 (6.8)

236.74 (7.5) 2659 2878 9.7 9.9

TOTAL 3170.07 (100.0)

3186.17 (100.0) 39185 38728 0.3 0.2

NB: Figures in bracket indicate percentage to total


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The total value of inventory of stores held by the Corporation as on 31-03-2016 was Rs.3170.07 lakhs as against Rs. 2186.17 lakhs held as on 31-03-2015.

Of the total inventory of stores held as on 31-03-2016, 19.9% or Rs.632.07 lakhs accounted for other consumables and 31.5% or Rs.999.51 lakhs accounted for spare parts. In relation to the fleet of the Corporation, the magnitude of the stock held as on 31-03-2016 was Rs.39185 per bus of which Rs.7813 represented other consumables and Rs.12355 represented spare parts.

6.2 STORES PURCHASE AND CONSUMPTION:

The value analysis of stores purchases and consumption during the year 2015-16 with comparative figures of previous year is shown in Table-24.

TABLE-24

Sl. No

Classification

Purchase Consumption

Rs.in lakhs Avg.per bus (Rs.) Rs.in lakhs Avg.per bus (Rs.)

2015-16 2014-15 2015-16 2014-15 2015-16 2014-15 2015-16 2014-15

1 Fuel 100638.97 125552.14 1231464 1508768 100480.86 125368.19 1229530 1506558

2 Lubricants 1571.35 1741.23 19228 20924 1580.91 1731.82 19345 20811

3 Tyres, Tubes & Flaps 6947.62 8500.74 85014 102154 6929.17 8477.80 84788 101878

4 Batteries 407.36 420.70 4985 5056 407.36 417.22 4985 5014

5 Spare Parts 7534.62 6894.02 92197 82846 7514.15 6895.89 91947 82868

6 Other Consumables 3667.56 6602.52 44878 79343 3849.53 6522.74 47105 78384

7 Tickets, Stationery & Uniform 243.28 304.65 2977 3661 264.88 286.49 3241 3443

Total 121010.76 150016.00 1480740 1802752 121026.86 149700.15 1480940 1798956

The total value of stores purchased during the year 2015-16 was Rs.121010.76 lakhs as against Rs.150016.00 lakhs during 2014-15. The average purchase per vehicle decreased to Rs. 1480740 from Rs. 1802752

The total value of stores consumed during the year 2015-16 was Rs.121026.86 lakhs as against Rs.149700.15 lakhs during 2014-15. The average consumption per vehicle decreased to Rs. 121026.86 lakhs from Rs. 149700.15 lakhs. The average consumption per vehicle decreased to Rs.1480940 from Rs. 1798956.

6.3 Purchase of Diesel : During the year 2015-16, tender and Negotiation ( Discount, Credit facility and Infrastructure ) with M/s BPCL has been made for supply of Diesel (HSD). On account of which, the Corporations could save a total amount of Rs.359.56 crores ( All Corporation put together for 3 years of the contract). The details are as under.

- An amount of Rs. 70.78 crores is being saved annually by availing the discount of Rs.1286.06/ Kilo liter of Diesel. KSRTC on behalf of all the four Corporations, has entered in to MoU for three years and the total savings workedout to Rs 212.34 crores.

- On account of credit facility for 30 days offered by BPCL, the Corporations could save Rs. 89.98 crores for supply of Diesel.


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- On account of Infrastructure ( HSD pump facilities) offered by BPCL, the Corporations could save an amount of Rs.57.24 crores

6.4 IMPORT OF SPARE PARTS/MACHINERIES :

No spare parts/machineries were imported during the period 2015-16.

6.5 DISPOSAL OF SCRAP MATERIALS AND VEHICLES :

The total revenue realized from sale of scrapped materials and vehicles in e-auction sale was Rs.10.59 crores during 2015-16 as against Rs.19.58crores realized during 2014-15. 299 scrapped vehicles were sold in tender-cum-auction sale during the year under report as against 670 sold during 2014-15.

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CHAPTER-7 FINANCE

7.0 The financial working results of the Corporation and the salient features of the financial management during the year 2015-16 are detailed in the following paragraphs.

7.1 CAPITAL STRUCTURE:

The capital contribution of the Corporation consists of contribution from the participating Governments viz., the State government and the Central Government. In order to provide adequate transport and infrastructure facility to commuters, funds have been raised from the commercial banks for purchase of buses. The capital Investment of the Corporation is as shown in Table-25.

TABLE – 25 (Rs.in Lakhs)

Sl No. Source

Position as on

31-03-2015

% to Total

Additions during

2015-16

With- drawal during 2015-16

Position as on

31-03-2016

% to total

1. State Govt.:- a) Cap. Contr. b)Equity Capital

0.00

24278.94

0.00

10.08

0.00

0.00

0.00 0.00

0.00

24278.94

0.00 9.75

2. Central Govt.:- a). Cap. Contr. b). Equity Capital

100.00

4809.76

0.04 2.00

0.00

0.00

0.00 0.00

100.00

4809.76

0.04 1.93

3. JnNURM+SDP+SUTP (contribution from State and Central)

14055.86 5.83 6535.68 1463.07 19128.47 7.68

4. Inter. Resources (Depn. Reserve) 135117.49 56.07 20411.70 0.00 155529.19 62.43

5. From Revenue 31124.49 12.92 0.00 6530.17 24594.32 9.87

6. Loans:- a)Comm.Banks b)KUIDFC

30122.86

1350.00

12.50

0.56

400.00 0.00

10866.89

320.00

19655.97

1030.00

7.89 0.41

Total 240959.40 100.00 27347.38 19180.13 249126.65 100.00

7.2 CAPITAL RECEIPT:

The capital investment of the Corporation increased from Rs. 240959.40 lakhs as on 31-03-2015 to Rs.249126.65 lakhs with an addition of Rs.8167.25 lakhs as on 31-03-2016.

As such the capital structure of KSRTC stood at Rs.249126.65 lakhs as at the end of 31-03-2016. The source of capital investment and the transactions during the year are detailed in Table-25. Of the total investment as on 31-03-2016, the contributions and the equity from the participant governments represented 19.40%, (which includes contribution amount of Rs.19128.47 lakhs from the State and Central Govt. under JnNURM,SDP and SUTP schemes),while the amount financed internally represented 72.30%, and loans constituted 8.30 %.


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7.3 CAPITAL EXPENDITURE:

The composition of gross capital expenditure on fixed assets as at the end of the year under report, with net additions during the financial year, is shown in Table-26.

TABLE- 26 (Rs.in Lakhs)

Sl. No. Item of Assets

Position as on

31-03-2015

% to total

Gross addition including

tr. from one category to

other

On a/c of tr. to assets

adjust. a/c on

reconciliation

Written off

On a/c of tr. From one category

to other

Position as on

31-03-2016 % to total

1 Land 4829.52 2.00 220.42 0.00 0.00 0.00 5049.94 2.03

2 Bldg. (including those in progress ) 51415.06 21.34 12792.35 0.00 0.00 9569.70 54637.71 21.93

3 Passenger Buses 161880.39 67.18 9244.78 103.98 4415.25 3713.45 162892.49 65.39

4 Dept. Vehicles 1191.12 0.50 34.26 0.00 79.88 0.00 1145.50 0.46 5 Plant & Mach. 10087.40 4.19 113.32 0.00 0.00 0.00 10200.72 4.09

6 Furniture & other Equipments

1069.81 0.44 12.41 0.00 0.00 0.00 1082.22 0.43

7 JnNURM Assets 8022.18 3.33 3383.60 0.00 0.00 55.87 11349.91 4.56 8 CWIP-ITS/IES 2463.92 1.02 2424.62 0.00 0.00 2120.38 2768.16 1.11 Total 240959.40 100.00 28225.76 103.98 4495.13 13339.02 249126.65 100.00

With a net addition of Rs.8167.25 lakhs to the fixed assets during the year 2015-16, the cumulative expenditure on fixed assets rose from Rs. 240959.40 lakhs to Rs.249126.65 lakhs as on 31-03-2016. Out of the total expenditure of Rs. 249126.65 lakhs, the total investments on passenger vehicles was to the extent of Rs.162892.49 lakhs and constituted 65.39% of the total investments and Rs.59687.65 lakhs (23.96%) on land and buildings, while the balance of Rs.26546.51lakhs (10.65%) comprised of other assets such as plant and machinery, furniture and other equipments including domestic vehicles, JnNURM assets and CWIP-ITS/IES.

7.4 REVENUE RECEIPT:

The gross revenue turnover which was in the order of Rs. 320468.94 lakhs during 2014-15 decreased to Rs.317878.99 lakhs during 2015-16 representing an decrease of 0.8% or Rs.2589.95 lakhs. The detailed analysis of revenue receipts is given in Table-27.


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TABLE- 27

Sl

No Particulars

Amount

(Rs.in lakhs) % age to total

Ps. per

effective km

2014-15 2015-16 2014-15 2015-16 2014-15 2015-16

A

Traffic Revenue

1.Passenger fare

2.Passenger luggage

3.Contract services

4.Rev.from travel concession

5.Fines collected

6.Postal mail service

258430.11

2500.20

7120.87

15887.94

69.45

48.05

252869.27

2547.55

6439.32

15860.80

59.14

56.51

80.64

0.78

2.22

4.96

0.02

0.02

79.55

0.80

2.03

4.99

0.02

0.02

2615.52

25.30

72.07

160.80

0.70

0.49

2611.32

26.31

66.50

163.79

0.61

0.58

Total – A 284056.62 277832.59 88.64 87.40 2874.88 2869.12

B

Other Revenue :

1.Advertisement

2.Non traffic revenue

3.Commercial establishment

4.Financial income

5.From sale of scrap

6.Sale of land

6. From subsidy

219.18

8172.02

3643.21

32.58

1957.98

0.00

22265.60

304.97

9974.51

4581.56

223.87

1169.42

7.40

23630.02

0.07

2.55

1.14

0.01

0.61

0.00

6.94

0.10

3.14

1.44

0.07

0.37

0.00

7.43

2.22

82.71

36.87

0.33

19.82

0.00

225.34

3.15

103.00

47.31

2.31

12.08

0.08

244.02

Total B 36290.57 39891.80 11.32 12.55 367.29 411.95

C Net prior period adj. (+) 121.75 (+) 154.60 0.04 0.05 1.23 1.60

D Gross Revenue(A+B+C) 320468.94 317878.99 100.00 100.00 3243.40 3282.66

Of the total gross revenue Rs. 317878.99 lakhs realised during the year under report, Rs.277532.59 lakhs constituting to 87.40 % of the total receipts represented traffic revenue and Rs.39891.80 lakhs constituting 12.55% represented miscellaneous receipts. The Corporation has received a subsidy of Rs.23630.02 lakhs from the State Government during 2015-16 towards concessions extended to various


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categories of the commuters. The rate of gross earning per effective km during the year 2015-16 was 3282.67 Paise, while the EPKM realised from traffic revenue was 2869.11 paise.

7.5 WORKING EXPENDITURE:

The total expenditure during the year 2015-16 was Rs.312783.84 lakhs as against Rs. 324817.95 lakhs during 2014-15 indicating an decrease of Rs.12034.81 lakhs or 3.70 %.

An analysis of the total working expenses under major heads both in actuals and in terms of rate per km. with percentage break-up is furnished in Table-28.

TABLE – 28

Sl. No Particulars

Amount (Rs.in lakhs) % to total Ps. per eff. Km. 2014-15 2015-16 2014-15 2015-16 2014-15 2015-16

A

B

Staff:- 1) Traffic

74983.20

77785.15

23.08 24.87

758.89 803.27

2) Work shops & maintenance 12594.40 12734.93 3.88 4.07 127.47 131.51 3) Others 5171.67 9679.78 1.59 3.09 52.34 99.96 4) P. F. Welfare Etc. 21132.66 31216.44 6.51 9.98 213.88 322.37 Total –A 113881.93 131416.30 35.06 42.01 1152.57 1357.11 1) Fuel (Diesel) 125368.12 100460.35 38.60 32.12 1268.82 1037.43 2) Lubricants 1731.82 1561.20 0.53 0.50 17.53 16.12 3) Auto spare parts 6895.89 7163.48 2.12 2.29 69.79 73.98 4) Tyres and tubes 8477.81 6929.02 2.61 2.22 85.80 71.55 5) Batteries and electrical items 417.22 407.36 0.13 0.13 4.22 4.21 6) Other consumables 2687.41 2527.12 0.83 0.81 27.20 26.10 7) Reconditioning 3241.99 3526.85 1.00 1.13 32.81 36.42 8. Taxes:- a) M V tax

15660.89

15282.54

4.82 4.89

158.50 157.82

b) Other Taxes on vehicles 130.71 134.34 0.04 0.04 1.32 1.39 Total taxes (a to b) 15791.60 15416.88 4.86 4.93 159.82 159.21

9. Interest

C D

a) To Central Govt. 0.00 319.00 0.00 0.10 0.00 3.29 b) To State Govt. 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 c) On borrowings 3768.38 2913.68 1.16 0.93 38.14 30.09 Total (a to c) 3768.38 3232.68 1.16 1.03 38.14 33.38 10. Depreciation a) On vehicles 22933.50 20198.98 7.06 6.46 232.10 208.59 b) On other assets 2033.03 2085.98 0.63 0.66 20.58 21.54 Total (a to b) 24966.53 22284.96 7.69 7.12 252.68 230.13 Total B. 193346.77 163509.90 59.52 52.28 1956.82 1688.53 Miscellaneous and others 17589.25 17857.65 5.42 5.71 178.02 184.41 Hired vehicle charges 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 GRAND TOTAL (A+B+C+D) 324817.95 312783.85 100.00 100.00 3287.41 3230.05


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The operating expenditure includes all items of revenue expenditure and also capital charges like depreciation, interest on capital and loans.

7.6 WORKING RESULTS: The financial working results of the Corporation and financial ratios indicating the trends in productivity of investment during the year 2015-16 with comparative figures for the previous year are given in Table-29.

TABLE -29


1 Capital employed ( Mean – Rs. in lakhs) 78276.72 79505.19

2 Revenue turnover (Gross) a) Rs. in lakhs b) Ratio to mean capital

320468.94

4.09

317878.99

4.00

3 Total expenditure a) Rs. in lakhs. b) As % age to revenue

324817.95

101.36

312783.85

98.40

4 Net profit/loss before income tax a) Rs. in lakhs. b) As % age to mean capital employed

-4349.01

-5.56

5095.14

6.41

5 Return on Capital (Net profit + Int.charges) a) Rs. in lakhs. b) % age Return on Mean Capital

-580.63

0.74

8327.82

10.47

The revenue turnover ratio decreased to 4.00 during 2015-16 from 4.09 of 2014-15. The expense ratio decreased to 98.40 during 2015-16 from 101.36 of 2014-15. Net profit during the current year was Rs.5095.14 lakhs as against the losses of Rs.4349.01 during 2014-15.

7.7 FUNDS AND RESERVES: The position pertaining to various internal funds and reserves of the Corporation during the year 2015-16 is furnished in Table-30.

Table – 30 (Rs. in lakhs)

Sl No.

Description of Fund

Opening balance as on

01-04-2015

Additions Deductions Closing balance as on

31-03-2016 During 2015-16

On a/c of tr.from one cat. to other

On a/c of written off assets/

debits

On a/c of tr. from one cat.

to another

1 Depreciation 140332.46 22290.25 0.00 4495.13 0.00 158127.58

2 Insurance Fund for Vehicles (third party risk only) 20.00 4516.00 0.00 4516.00 0.00 20.00

3 Insurance Fund for other Assets (including vehicles) 4984.65 160.93 0.00 212.32 0.00 4933.26

4 Insurance Fund for Freight Surcharges for risk in carriage of Parcels and Goods.

40.57 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 40.57


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5 KSRTC Employees Welfare & Passenger Amenities Fund 1319.01 706.54 0.00 499.46 0.00 1526.09

6 Special Development Plan (SDP Grants) 1897.79 1500.00 0.00 1358.93 0.00 2038.86

7 JnNURM Grants for Buildings-1 0.15 0.01 0.00 0.16 0.00 0.00

8 JnNURM Grants for Buildings-11 2847.97 563.20 0.00 0.00 0.00 3411.17

9 JnNURM Grants for Rolling Stock-1 285.62 20.78 0.00 0.00 0.00 306.40

10 JnNURM Grants for Rolling Stock-11 6256.14 1759.08 0.00 0.00 0.00 8015.22

11 JnNURM Grants for ITS/IES 2252.19 123.18 0.00 0.00 0.00 2375.37

12 CFA Solar Plan Grants 516.00 2569.43 0.00 103.98 0.00 2981.45

Total 160752.55 34209.40 0.0 11185.98 0.0 183775.97

The total internal fund balance as on 31-03-2016 was Rs.183775.97 lakhs. The total addition during the year to various funds amounted to Rs.34209.40 lakhs and the withdrawals on account of written off assets/debits amounted to Rs.11185.98 lakhs. The Corporation utilised Rs.155529.19 lakhs from the fund towards capital expenditure programme and repayment of long-term loans.

The balance shown against various funds in Table-30 are exclusive of the amount withdrawn as internal resources for the purpose of capital expenditure and repayment of loans. The details of the funds so utilized up to 31.03.2016 are shown in Table-31.

TABLE – 31 (Rs.in lakhs)

Sl. No

Funds utilized

Opening balance as on

01-04-2015

Additions during

2015-16

Withdra-wals during

2015-16

Closing balance as on

31-03-2016

1 Depreciation Fund for Capital Expenditure and Repayment of Loans 135117.49 20411.70 0.00 155529.19

2 Betterment Fund 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

3 Vehicle Replacement Reserve for Capital Expenditure 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

4 KSRTC Employees Welfare & Passenger Amenity Fund 1319.01 706.54 499.46 1526.09

5 Development Rebate Reserve and utilized for Capital 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

Total 136436.50 21118.24 499.46 157055.28

Categorywise pay scales in force as on 31-03-2016 and rate of annual contribution and amount of revenue expenditure of depreciation on movable and immovable property are shown in schedule–E and schedule–F respectively. Balance sheet as on 31st March 2016, accounting policies, profit and loss account for the year ended 31st March 2016, net revenue appropriation account for the year ended 31st March 2016 and the details of capital expenditure for the year 2015-16 are shown in Appendix 10,11,12,13 and 14 respectively.


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Statistical

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CHAPTER – 8 CIVIL ENGINEERING

8.1 LAND VALUE:

In the revised budget estimates for the year 2015-16, Rs.500.00 lakhs was earmarked for purchase of land. 6.35 acres of land was purchased at the cost of Rs. 99.05 lakhs at Madugiri further land measuring 3.05 acres costing Rs.372.25 lakhs at T.Narsipura has been obtained free of cost the Government. It has exchanged the property measuring 1.12 acres of land which was at Kadekar village of Udupi with that of 2.50 acres of Government land at Mudanidambur of Udupi (costing about Rs.1134.15 lakhs) has been obtained free of cost. The extent of total land held by the Corporation including KIMCO as on 31-3-2016 was 1250.47 acres, its book value as per accounts being Rs.5926.14 lakhs.

1. PROGRESS OF CIVIL WORKS:

In the revised budget estimates of 2015-16 for capital expenditure on buildings was estimated and provided Rs. 5000.00 lakhs. This includes Rs. 1500.00 lakhs released by the Govt. of Karnataka during 2015-16 towards development of transport infrastructure facilities to the commuters on the recommendations of Dr. Nanjundappa Report under SDP scheme. During the year, the Corporation by utilizing its internal resources and grants released by the Government under SDP scheme, 152 works were taken at an approximate cost of Rs. 5371.23 lakhs and spent Rs. 4966.93 lakhs. The cumulative expenditure on buildings including the works in progress was Rs.66290.31 lakhs as on 31-03-2016.

The works taken up under these capital expenditure heads separately are detailed below and break-up of the committed works and the progress of expenditure during the year under report are given at Table-32.

a) Under SDP scheme 19 works were taken up and out of which 11 works were completed and the remaining 8 works were under progress. The expenditure incurred as on 31-03-2016 under this scheme during the year was Rs. 1141.00 lakhs.

b) By utilizing the internal resources of the Corporation, it had taken up 133 works during the year under report, out of which 54 works were completed and the remaining 79 works were under progress. The expenditure incurred under this head during the year was Rs.3825.93 lakhs.

c) Construction of driving training centers at Malavalli, Chikkamagalur and Malur at an estimated cost of Rs. 1500.00 lakhs and mechanics training centres at Malavalli, Chikkamagalur and Malur at an estimated cost of Rs. 1050.00 lakhs were under progress. The expenditure incurred as on 31-3-2016 under SCP and TSP scheme during the year was Rs. 857.77 lakhs.

d) Construction of bus depots at Kolar, KGF, Tumkur, Ramanagara, Shivamogga, Bhadravathi, Chitradurga, Davanagere, Mysore, Mandya, Mangalore, Udupi and Hassan were taken up under the JnNURM (UIDSSMT) scheme at an estimated cost of Rs. 7675.00 lakhs funded by the Central Government and the Govt. of Karnataka. The depots are proposed to be utilised for maintenance of buses procured for city transport under JnNURM (UIDSSMT) scheme. The expenditure incurred under JnNURM scheme during the financial year was Rs. 2809.99 lakhs


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TABLE- 32

Sl. No. Particulars

Estimates Actual

No. of Works

Cost (Rs. In Lakhs)

No. of Works

Cost (Rs. In Lakhs)

Part-A (KSRTC and SDP funds)

1 Depot 5 599.96 5 689.56

2 Bus Station 18 2486.78 11 1882.78

3 DWS/Divisional office 4 254.44 2 73.35

4 Upgradation of Bus Stations 15 412.41 9 324.87

5 Upgradation of Bus Depots 2 228.00 2 41.25

6 Misc. Works 108 1389.64 68 1955.12

Total 152 5371.23 97 4966.93

Part-B (SCP, TSP and JnNURM funds)

1 Depot 13 3654.85 13 2660.91

2 Training Institutes 6 2550.00 6 857.77

Total 19 6204.85 19 3518.68

Kattemaralwadi Bus Station Mulabagilu Bus Station Puttur Bus Station

The bus Station at Puttur which has been constructed through public private partner ship (PPP) has been commissioned. The bus station has been provided with 27 bays and modern passenger amenities like dust proof parking area, sanitary block, Seating arrangements, rest rooms etc. have been provided

8.3 TEMPORARY WORKS, REPAIRS AND MAINTENANCE : Apart from the permanent works of capital in nature, number of semi-permanent, temporary, other repairs and maintenance works were also been taken up during the year under report. The expenditure incurred on such temporary, repairs and maintenance works during the year amounted to Rs.800.00 lakhs.

8.4 ACTION PLAN FOR THE YEAR 2016-17: It is contemplated to spend Rs.10535.00 lakhs including purchase of land and various committed works like construction of depots, bus stations, divisional offices, divisional workshops and other miscellaneous works in the Action Plan for the year 2016-17. It is expected to obtain a release of Rs. 3000.00 lakhs as budget grants from the State Government for various civil works under SDP scheme and under KGIDF Rs.3276.00 lakhs grants for infrastructure development in the Corporation.

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CHAPTER – 9 LABOUR

9.1 WORKERS PARTICIPATION IN MANAGEMENT :

Periodical meetings are held with all the Corporate-level employee’s unions. Besides, the production-

cum-grievance committee meetings are held at Depot, Workshop and Division level. The suggestions given

by the employees as well as their representatives are examined with right prospective. The employee’s

Provident Fund Trust, Employee’s Educational Assistance Fund and the Employee’s Death cum Retirement

benefit Fund have employee’s representatives in the respective committee.

9.2 INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES:

The industrial relation throughout the year was cordial except few incidents of snap strikes and agitations.

9.3 PAID HOLIDAYS:

The employees of the Corporation are entitled for 10 Paid holidays annually and during the year of

report; Rs.13.26 Crore has been paid as additional wages to the employees who have worked on holidays.

9.4 GRATUITY:

The Gratuity in KSRTC is calculated both as per the provisions of the KSRTC Gratuity Regulations as

well as in accordance with the Payment of Gratuity Act-1972, and the amount whichever is beneficial to the

employees will be paid. The quantum of gratuity as per the act is equal to half month’s pay (Pay + Dearness

allowance) for each completed year of service. The quantum of gratuity as per the regulations is one month’s

basic pay for each completed year of service.

During the year 2015-16, an amount of Rs.68.43 crore was paid as gratuity to 1101 employees, who

have Retired, Resigned, Dismissed and Expired.

9.5 EMPLOYEES PROVIDENT FUND SCHEME :

The Corporation has obtained exemption and the fund is managed by the Trust consisting

representatives of both from the Management as well as employees.

9.6 CANTEEN:

At present, Co-operative canteens are functioning at Kolar, Mysore, Chickkaballapur, K.G.F and

Chintamani. The Canteens at Regional Workshops, Bangalore and Hassan are run by the Department. The

Annual subsidy to these canteens has been increased as per Resultion no 9504/419 Dated 13.09.2013.

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Canteen Annual Subsidy

Regional Workshops Kengeri Rs60,000 to Rs.1,00,000/-

Regional Workshops Hassan Rs60,000 to Rs.70,000/-

Kolar Rs40,000 to Rs.75,000/-

Mysore Urban Rs.40,000 continued

Chikkaballapura Rs.30,000 to Rs.75,000/-

KGF and Chintamani Depot Rs.20,000 to Rs.40,000/-

Apart from the above, circular guidelines are issued to run the canteen at the needy Depots through the private registered contractor by calling tender by extending certain facilities like free building rent, water, etc.

9.7 MEDICAL REIMBURSEMENT AND OTHER MEDICAL FACILITIES:

Employees are entitled for Medical Reimbursement as per the KSRTC Employees (Medical

Attendance) Regulations 1970. The Corporation has adopted CGHS, Non NABH rates for Reimbursement of

medical expenditures w.e.f 01.04.2012 and an amount of Rs.9.65 crores was reimbursed towards the medical

claims of employees during the year of report. Family Members and dependent parents residing with the

employee are also eligible for reimbursement. Besides, the medical reimbursement facility is also extended to

the Trainee employees of the Corporation w.e.f 01.04.2012.

Further, with a view to provide better medical facilities, the Corporation has empanelled 130 well

equipped private hospitals which are recognized by the Government at different district and taluk head

quarters, including Bangalore. 7 diagnostic centers are also recognized by the Corporation.

9.8 COMPENSATION UNDER WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION ACT:

Employees of the Corporation are entitled for compensation as per the provisions of the WORKMEN’S

COMPENSATION ACT and during the year of report, an amount of Rs. 66.43 lakhs was paid as

compensation amount to the eligible employees.

9.9 SPORTS & CULTURAL ACTIVITIES: A Special provision was made to contribute Rs.8.00 lakh annually to the Sports and cultural fund of the

Corporation to encourage sports and cultural activities of the employees of the Corporation.

Sports and cultural competitions are conducted at central office and divisional level. Rs.3.99 lakhs was

spent towards sports and Cultural activities during the year of report.

9.10 DEATH-CUM-RETIREMENT BENEFIT FUND: All employees of the Corporation are enrolled as members of this fund by contributing Rs.20/- each per

month, out of which, Rs.7/- is set apart towards employee’s death coverage and the balance Rs.13/- is

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Trust pays Rs.5,000/- towards funeral expenses and the balance of his contribution with 8% interest as well

as Rs.25,000/- as lump sum is paid to the dependents of the deceased.

The employees dismissed/ retired/resigned from services are also entitled to get their contribution along

with 8% interest as per the provisions of this fund.

9.11 EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FUND: Under the aegis of the Educational Assistance Fund, the Industrial Training Institute at Hassan is

functioning. The cash assistance paid to the employees children from the fund is detailed below.

This educational assistance is extended to only one member of the employee’s family.

9.12 LABOUR WELFARE MEASURES:

1. Educational Loan:

Under the scheme, Educational loan upto Rs.1.00 lakh is sanctioned towards payment of Tuition fee in

respect of employee’s children who pursue Professional Courses viz., BE, MBBS, BDS, BAMS etc. During

the year 2015-16, an amount of Rs.5,65,900/- has been sanctioned in 11 cases.

2. Grant of Cash Award for Merit Students:

Under the scheme, the employees children securing 70 and more percentage of marks in SSLC, 2nd

PUC as well as more than 60% marks in Degree Final examinations are granted cash awards ranging from

Rs.1000/- to Rs.4000/-. During the year 1096 students were granted cash awards to the tune of Rs.23.53

lakhs.

3. De-addiction Programme:

A de-addiction Scheme under the title WAPPA (Work Place Alcohol Prevention Programme and

Activity) is going on in KSRTC since 1997 particularly to help alcohol addicts. A 40 bedded de-addiction

treatment centre is established at KSRTC Hospital, Jayanagar, Bangalore. The Corporation spends about

Rs.8000/- to each addicted employee towards the residential/In-House treatment. During the year 2015-16,

64 employees were treated for alcoholism.

4. Preventive Medicine and Healthy Life Style Clinic:

A Preventive Medicine & Healthy Life Style Clinic is functioning at Mysore and during the year 2015-16,

4805 employees have under gone health check-up at Mysore clinic.

1 I.T.I. courses Rs.75/- per month

2 Diploma courses Rs.110/- per month

3 Graduataion- BE/BVSC courses Rs.900/-per semester

4 Medical courses & Post-graduate courses Rs.225/- per month


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5. Employees Family Welfare Scheme:

Employees Family Welfare Scheme has been implemented in KSRTC in the year 2008. This scheme is

voluntary and optional. Under the scheme, the dependent of the member employee who dies while in service,

is entitled to get a compensation of Rs. 3.00 lakhs. The monthly premium of the scheme is Rs. 150/-out of

which, Rs.50/- shall be contributed by the Corporation. During the year 2015-16, Rs.3.51 crores has been

paid as compensation under the scheme.

Maternity Leave:

The maternity benefit leave in KSRTC is enhanced to 180 days on par with the State Government.

The employees now shall avail 90 days leave before the date of expected delivery and the remaining 90 days

of leave after the delivery.

Creche Allowance (Child Care Allowance):

Monthly child care allowance of Rs:500/- to the women employees till their kids attains the age of 2

years was implemented w.e.f November-2012.

Exgratia to the dependents:

Payment of Rs.10,000/- from the Corporation exclusively in the form of Exgratia to the dependents of the

employees who expire while in service to meet the immediate expenditure, and not recoverable from the

employees retirement benefit..

Duty rota system: A Transparent Duty allocation system to the Drivers and Conductors based on their seniority cum

option was introduced from 2013.

Leave Kisok: Likewise, a transparent Leave sanctioning system i.e., computer based leave management kiosk is

installed in all the depots.

Other Benifits :

• Besides, the monthly sanction to get the depot toilets and urinals cleaned by engaging outsider is enhanced to Rs.6000/- per month.

• The employees suffering from the illnesses mentioned in Persons with Disability act-1995 and suffering from more than 40% Disability are accommodated by providing alternative job or light duty.

• Employees who are medically found unfit and willing to opt for VRS are entitled to additional financial benefit maximum up to Rs.6.00 lakhs.

• Monthly stiphend of all the trainee employees enhanced by 30% effective from 01.10.2015.

• The retired employees of the Corporation are entitled to travel free of cost in all the ordinary and express services of all the four Corporations without any limitation of kms.


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• The blind and physically handicapped employees are entitled for vehicle allowance equivalent to 6% of their basic without any ceiling on par with the State Government.

• The conductors who have put in 25 years of service are granted with one more additional increment.

• Sanction of Education allowance of Rs.500/- to the employees having blind and disabled children and monthly child care allowance of Rs.500/- to the employees having physically disabled children subject to terms and conditions stipulated in Government order. Circular have been issued in this behalf.

• Pursuant to the amendment to Bonus Act brought in by the Central Government the Corporation has paid Maximum Bonus amount of Rs.7000/- to the employees drawing wages upto Rs.21,000/- by adding the said bonus amount to the June month salary.

• A provision is also made to avail 730 days of special leave with pay for the benefit of women employees having child suffering from Autism, Blindness, Mental Illness, Cerebral Palsy, Mental Retardation and Multiple disabilities.

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CHAPTER – 10 SECURITY AND VIGILANCE

10.0 The Security and Vigilance department consists of the following sections:

1. Security and

2. Vigilance

10.1 SECURITY SECTION:

10.2 The primary duty of the Security department is to provide physical security to the property of the Corporation against theft, fire, pilferage and misappropriation etc., by the employees and the outsiders. The security personnel report cases of different types relating to theft, misuse and misappropriation of KSRTC property. Comparative figures of the cases reported during the year 2015-16 and 2014-15 are shown in Table-33.

TABLE – 33

Sl. No. Nature of cases

Number of cases 2015-16 2014-15

1 Theft of KSRTC property 2 9

2

Misappropriation of KSRTC property: a) Misappropriation by the employees other than conductors. b) Misappropriation by conductors

Total

2 2

6 3

4 9 3 Loss or damage to KSRTC property. 28 26 4 Total number of cases (1 to 3) 34 44 5 Total amount involved (Rs.in lakhs) 590.00 120.00

10.3 The Security staff also reported other cases wherein employees of the Corporation were involved and the details as compared to corresponding period of previous year are shown in Table-34.

TABLE– 34

Sl. No. Nature of cases

Number of cases 2015-16 2014-15

1 Assault 28 24 2 Rude behavior 12 31 3 Other miscellaneous cases 67 44

Total number of cases(1to3) 107 99


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10.4 The department ensured proper departmental action against errant employees by initiating disciplinary action. In case of theft and misappropriation, complaints were lodged in respective jurisdictional police stations against erring employees and offending outsiders for ensuring legal action against them.

10.5 ANALYSIS OF WORK DONE BY THE SECURITY PERSONNEL:

During the year, security staff of the operating divisions and Regional Workshops have detected and reported cases of theft, misappropriation, loss and damage of KSRTC property. The details are as under.

a) Theft of KSRTC Property:

The details of theft cases reported and enquired into during 2015-16 as compared to previous year are furnished in Table-35.

TABLE-35

Year No. of cases

Amount of property involved

(Rs.in lakhs)

No. of employees

involved

No. of outsiders involved

2015-16 02 -- -- 2

2014-15 09 0.71 9 4

b) Misappropriation:

(i) Other than conductors :

Details of misappropriation cases reported against the employees other than conductors in 2015-16 and the related figures of previous year are given in Table-36.

TABLE – 36

Year No. of cases Amount involved (Rs. in lakhs)

2015-16 2 9.45 2014-15 6 0.55

(ii) Conductors :

Details of misappropriation cases reported against conductors in 2015-16 and the related figures of previous year are given in Table-37.

Table-37

Year No. of cases Amount involved (Rs. in lakhs ) 2015-16 2 3.22 2014-15 3 0.47


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c) Loss or damages to KSRTC property:

18 cases of loss or damage to KSRTC property due to agitation, strike, fire, etc., involving an amount of Rs.554.46 lakhs were reported during the year 2015-16 as against 17 cases involving an amount of Rs. 100.40 lakhs during previous year.

10.6 FIRE ACCIDENTS:

10 cases of fire accidents were reported in Depots and Divisional work shops during the year 2015-16 involving loss of property worth of Rs.23.66 lakhs as against 9 cases of fire accidents reported involving loss of property worth of Rs.18.85 lakhs during 2014-15.

10.7 DACOITY/ROBBERY:

During the year 2015-16 no dacoity/robbery case has been reported. During the year 2014-15 one dacoity/robbery case has been reported causing loss of Rs. 30.00 lakhs to the passengers.

10.2.1 VIGILANCE SECTION:

The department takes cognizance of the petitions received and information gathered on various acts of omissions and commissions on the part of the officers and officials of KSRTC in their discharge of duties, indulging in corrupt practices etc., and arranges for proper enquiries. 430 petitions of all types were received during the year 2015-16, out of which 340 petitions were referred for enquiry. 95 petitions were forwarded to NWKRTC, 90 petitions to NEKRTC and 43 petitions to BMTC for action at their end. In 53 cases, enquiry reports were sent to various disciplinary authorities for initiating action against the employees. 193 enquiry reports were closed. 139 petitions were pending with Deputy Chief Security & Vigilance Officers/Security & Vigilance Officers/ Divisional Security Inspectors of various divisions at enquiry stage.

In order to receive and manage information on various issues which affect the bus operations viz., accidents, breakdowns, destructive illegal acts such as strikes, agitations, dharnas etc. survivellance system at Kempegowda Bus Station and Mysore City Bus Station are connected to the Central Control room newly formed at Mysore road satellite bus station by making use of high end network technology for effective monitoring of the activities at these bus stations round the clock.

10.2.2 LINE CHECKING :

The line checking staff and security & vigilance staff detect and report cases, during their line checking duties, of pilferage by crew. Emphasis has been laid to check pilferprone conductors and drivers. The details are as shown in Table – 38.

TABLE – 38

Year No. of buses

checked

No. of pilferage

cases detected

Pilferage amount involved

(Rs. in lakhs)

Penalty imposed

(Rs. in lakhs)

Passengers penalized

2015-16 2014-15

666397 683957

61459 72103

11.61 14.20

96.67 110.13

71894 91379


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10.2.3 PREVENTIVE CHECKS: Preventive checks have been conducted to ensure correctness of supply of HSD and its proper accountal. Details of preventive checks made as compared to previous year are as under.

Sl. No.

Particulars 2015-16 2014-15

1 Checks on underground HSD tank 554 266

2 Checks on IOC tankers enroute 251 74

10.2.4 DETECTION OF CASES OF ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION:

In order to ensure road safety and to avoid accidents, a scheme of identification of alcoholics and their treatment has been started. The security staff are supplied with breath analysers to detect consumption of alcoholic drinks by the employees while on duty. A programme of de-addiction called “Workplace Alcohol Prevention Programme and Activities (WAPPA)” has been continued during the year under review. Regular and extensive checkings were conducted by the Security staff. In all 11139 Checks on employees were made with breath analyser. 22 cases of drunken while on duty were detected and the employees were sent to de-addiction centers to undergo the treatment to bring such employees to main stream.

10.2.5 ACCIDENTS:

The department has taken up investigations of genuineness of the claims made by the petitioners in MVC cases and as per Circular No.182 dt.15-5-2005 security officials visit fatal accident spot and conduct investigation to know the causes of accidents. During the year investigation reports were received in 192 fatal accident cases. Action on the guilty drivers has been under progress by the concerned disciplinary authorities.

10.2.6 ACTION ON THE REPORTS OF SECURITY & VIGILANCE STAFF:

The department had referred the reports submitted by security & vigilance personnel to the competent disciplinary authorities for initiation of disciplinary action against the defaulters. The disposal particulars of the cases referred to various disciplinary authorities during the year are as follows.

a) Dismissal 17

b) Termination/removal 2

c) Pay reduction 334

d) Recovery from pay 472

e) Postponement of increment 62

f) Censure/Warned 52

g) Fine 354

h) Exoneration 07

i) Reverted to lower post 01


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10.2.7 DETECTION OF CASES OF SMOKING:

During the year the Security & Vigilance Officers/officials of operating divisions detected 23166 cases against smokers in various bus stands and collected fine of Rs. 46.33 lakhs.

10.2.8 AWARDS:

During the year, in all 32 employees/officers of Security & Vigilance department were sanctioned reward amounting to Rs.23900/- in appreciation of their initiative and good work in detecting various cases of theft, pilferage etc.,

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CHAPTER – 11 ENVIRONMENT INTIATIVES

The Corporation has committed to minimize the impact of Environment hazards by taking several initiatives in its business activity. As social responsibility in one of the prime obligations, the Corporation is in the forefront for implementing innovative measures towards improved and developed greener environment. During the year 2015-16 the Corporation has undertaken several environmental initiatives which are detailed below.

11.0 Efforts to reduce harmful exhaust tail pipe emission:

The limit of smoke level of heavy duty diesel vehicles being 65 Hartridge, no vehicle above the norm was allowed to operate. The Pollution Under Control(PUC) Centers in the divisions are connected to network as per Central Motor Vehicle Act 1989 Rule 115. The Corporation conducts smoke emission checkings once in 6 months for the entire fleet. Apart from mandatory checking it also incorporated different initiatives to reduce the tail pipe emissions..

11.1 Afforestation :

There were totally 21200 plants/trees and have successfully survived in the premises of Depot/ Division/Training centers/Workshops/Offices of the Corporation.

11.2 Smoke Emission Checks:

The Corporation continued the programme of routine/surprise smoke emission checks at Bus Stations/Depots covering the entire fleet at regular intervals during the year. Totally 74715 vehicles were checked for smoke emission levels ( shown below graphically) during the year under report and out of which 1860 (2.5%) buses found to be slightly above the prescribed norms.. These buses were attended to and put back to operation.


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11.3. Surprise Emission Checks:

Three surprise smoke emission check programmes were organized during the year at major bus stations of the Corporation. 7090 buses were checked, in surprise out of which 440 buses were found above the prescribed norms (> 65 Hardridge units). Corrective action was taken at Depot/Division level to maintain these buses and put them back to operation with prescribed norms.

Smoke density meters have been provided to all the depots of Corporation for regular smoke checks

(Monthly) to the entire fleet.

14 Pollution Under Control Centers of the Corporation are networked to get smoke emission checking

online.

11.4 Innovation in use of alternate fuels: The Corporation is in forefront for implementing innovative measures towards improved and developed greener environment by using alternate fuels with the existing engine technology as a part of its social obligation and commitment.

• Replacement of PetroDiesel by Ethanol Blended Diesel-Direct replacement of 8.2% Diesel

• Replacement of PetroDiesel by Biodiesel Blended Diesel(B20) -Direct replacement of 20% Diesel

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11.5 Bio-Diesel blended Diesel (B20):

The Corporation has started a pilot project with 10 buses using 20% Bio-diesel blended fuel in the

existing fleet CI engines without any modification as per the notification by Ministry of Petroleum and Natural

Gas dated 10th August 2015 planned to go in mass in near future.

• Achieved to replace 5000L diesel with Biodiesel at trial duration of 1month

• Achieved to save 7650Kg of CO2 during 2015-16

• PM reduced by 40-50%,Co is reduced by 100%

11.6. Green squad Prakruthi for a clean Environment :

The Corporation has introduced mobile smoke emission and noise level checking service which is first of its kind in State Transport undertaking (STUs). The main objective of introducing the mobile smoke emission and noise check is to cross verify and regulate the checking conducted at depot and division level to keep healthy fleet and cleaner environment.

The vehicle comprises of the following equipments

• The Smoke Density Meter • Sound level meter • Laptop • Data card • Printer

During the year 2015-16 totally 2071 surprise checks are conducted for on road buses at Depots and Bus stations.

11.7. Pure Drinking Water RO/DF Plant:

The Corporation of installed 12 drinking water RO/DF of 500 LPH water plants at rural bus stations, funded by the department of the Rural Development and Panchayat Raj under NRDWP Coverage and Quality Programme.


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11.8. Water Recycling Plant:

This system is designed to recover 95% of bus washed water, 5% loss is due to runoff with silt, sludge, oil and grease etc. It has installed water recycling plant at 28 depots and planned to equip all the remaining depots. Due to this initiative the Corporation achieved 2.00 lakhs KL of water conserved every year.

11.9. Diesel Ethanol Blend:

21 Depots are identified and commissioned for blending of Ethonol diesel. Ethanol is blended with diesel at (7.7% Ethanol + 0.5% solubilizer + 91.8% diesel) and got the DL-3 licence for handling and storage of denatured ethanol. It has replaced 120000 petro diesel by green fuel ethonal. Ethanol blended diesel reduces exhaust gas emission considerably, Ethanol is a renewable fuel and by using it the nation can save foreign exchange.

11.10. Solar Lighting System:

The Corporation has initiated the use of solar lighting system for bus stations, workshops, divisional offices and depots. As many as 31 depots, 87 bus stations in addition to the Regional Workshop, Bengaluru have been equipped with these systems. This will be specific to yard lightings and day lightings . The Project is partly funded by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India. Because of this initiation the Corporation was able to achieve savings of 0.75 lakh KWP of grid power.

11.11. Disposal of Waste:

The waste oil from the bus maintenance sites viz depots is collected to a central location and disposed to an authorized recyclers (approved by the state and central pollution control boards). The oil will be subsequently recycled and disposed in accordance to the statutary standards. In order to reduce solid waste generated, the Corporation has launched a programme of reducing the use of paper, use of plastic for


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serving beverages at its internal meetings. The chemical waste and effluent generated are treated at effluent treatment plants. The Corporation has its own re-treading units where generated wastes like tyre chips and buffing materials are collected separately and disposed to rubber manufacturers for secondary use. KSRTC files returns to the Pollution Control Board regularly as a Environment responsibility.

11.12. ISO 14001 / OHSAS 18001 / ISO 9001:

OHSAS-18001: 2007 certification has been obtained for the Central Office and ISO 9001/2008 and ISO 14001: 2004 for Regional Work Shop, Bengaluru has been obtained and Periodic audit for the certification is carried out.

11.13. Conferences and Training Programme:

The Corporation has organized one day awareness programme on 31st May 2015 about

‘No Smoking at public places’ at Kempegowda bus station.

The Corporation has celebrated World Environment Day on 5th June 2015, by planting saplings at

Depot-1, Bangalore © division, Bengaluru.

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CHAPTER – 12 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

12.0 KSRTC has adopted information technology in its day-to-day operations and brought every staff under the information technology net. KSRTC is the leading State Transport Undertaking in the country to adopt information and communications technology in its administrative and operational processes. For its IT-enabled projects, KSRTC has received applause and many STU’ are following KSRTC’s IT way. KSRTC has been leveraging on Information Technology in its various progressive projects and the details of developments made during the year under report is given below.

12.1 Any Where Any Time Advance Reservation (AWATAR):

It is web based passenger seat reservation system developed for KSRTC reservation system. AWATAR passenger reservation system facilitates online booking of passenger seats through KSRTC counters, franchisee counters, Bengaluru One counters, mobile booking and e-booking by individuals. Tickets can be booked 30 days in advance including return journey tickets from selected destinations. Popularised the paperless ticketing and e-ticket, passenger can now travel in the bus by showing SMS delivered to them on confirmation of the tickets booked, contributing for green revolution. At present, AWATAR application supports 3000 concurrent users, scalable upto 5000 concurrent users on demand.

12.2 AWATAR Payment Mode:

In KSRTC booking payment mode, passenger can use debit card with VISA/ Master logo provided and also can use credit card issued by any bank in India with VISA/Master/logo. Previously net banking facility was available through SBI online only for the passengers who have SBI internet banking and transactions enabled. Now KSRTC offered payment mode option through Net/Internet banking for the online users to reserve a ticket in a convenient way, which gives complete control over bank accounts online. The Net banking gives more comfortable, convenience, flexibility to book a ticket anywhere, any time. Since all payments details are recorded, no additional effort is required for keeping track of payments. It is fast and saves valuable time, presently around 50 banks in the State are included for net banking facility. It is also implemented HTTPs, Seamless integration and “ICICI easy pay” at payment gateway site to reduce failure transactions

12.3 Mobile based application:

”URL based Mobile Booking application”, Android and windows based mobile application for booking and cancellation of tickets were implemented in AWATAR application.

12.4 Mobile-One:

AWATAR online Reservation system is integrated with Mobile-one portal of Government of Karnataka and the same has been inaugurated by Honourable President of India, on December 8th 2014. M-One will act as a single window to 637 services offered by the government both central & state; among all the services AWATAR KSRTC booking is also included.


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12.5 Guest Users booking:

Online booking by guest users (unregistered users) to increase the reach of advance booking to its commuters on its website in continued, www.ksrtc.in. e–Booking as a Guest user is featured for those users not having valid login user ID to continue the booking process without registration.

12.6 SMS integration:

Centre for e-Governance SMS portal is integrated with AWATAR reservation system to send SMS alerts to passengers after booking and cancellation of tickets. It is implemented “ Advance Journey” alerts to send vehicle and crew information to passengers.

12.7 AWATAR Performance:

Comparative data relating to number of seats booked and revenue realised through Awatar is given in below chart.

12.8 Link service booking:

Link service booking is implemented in AWATAR reservation system to passengers for booking tickets where there is no direct service is available.

12.9 Automation of Bulk Refund process:

Automation of refund process in AWATAR application to help the public in refunding the amount automatically after cancellation of tickets booked is continued.

12.10 Dynamic ladies seat quota:

Dynamic ladies seat quota is implemented to enable single lady to book seat beside lady seat which is already booked and it will not allow male to book the particular seat.

12.11 Casual contract booking:

Casual contract booking module is implemented to enable public to hire KSRTC buses on the basis of

rates fixed for various types of services to operate between two fixed places.

0.00

5.00

10.00

15.00

20.00

25.00

Apr-Jun Jul-Sep Oct-Dec Jan-Mar

21.97

19.20 20.0918.27

21.95

18.6120.75

18.23

Seats Booked for the Financial year2015-16 (In Lakhs)

2014-15 2015-16

0.00

50.00

100.00

150.00

Apr-Jun Jul-Sep Oct-Dec Jan-Mar

135.63112.56

117.44 106.80138.41

108.30126.11

106.86

Revenue Realised for the Financial year-2015-16 (In Crores)

2014-15 2015-16


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12.12 SAKAL Implementation:

As per Karnataka Guarantee of Services to Citizen’s Act, 2011, all the services related to KSRTC viz., issue of bus passes to school children, Accident Relief Fund, issue of bus passes to Physically challenged, issue of free bus passes to freedom fighters, issue of free bus pass to Blind person, issue of Rs. 2000/- worth of free bus coupons to wives/widows of Freedom Fighters are implemented under SAKAL portal. Information Technology department has provided all technical support towards implementation of SAKAL. The total applications received during the year is 502427 out of which 502620 were disposed.

12.13 KSWAN:

144 locations in KSRTC are covered under the Karnataka State Wide Area Network (KSWAN) internet connectivity provided by e-Governance Department for the implementation of centralisation of all IT initiatives.

12.14 Depot Computerisation System (DCS):

• Required IT infrastructure has been provided to all depots of KSRTC

• IT department is co-ordinating with depot/divisions and giving 24*7 technical supports for smooth

functioning of the IT applications.

• Item codes for 15,828 items have been unified across all the depots.

• Re-designed store module as per requirement of User department.

12.15 Electronic Ticketing Machine(ETM):

• Provision has been made to print vehicle number in tickets.

• Stage close time has been introduced in ETM.

• Ticket number has been introduced for the reports.

• “It is not a passenger ticket” is printed on all the reports generated through ETM.

12.16 Recruitment: Recruitment is the core process of the Corporation. Whole activity of recruitment has been brought

under the Information Technology and communication network.Online application system has been

developed for KSRTC for recruitment of various posts such as Supervisory (In-service and General), Non

Supervisory, Mechanics through KSRTC’s jobs site www.ksrtcjobs.com.

During the year functioning of recruitment process of maintaining Automated Driving Track and

conducting Driving test at Hassan, for the selection of skilled Drivers & Driver-cum-Conductors.

New software has been developed and implemented to prepare the selection list of the candidates

based on merit and candidates’ preference.

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In the recruitment process selection of the most skilled and appropriate candidate is tedious task. This

IT enabled recruitment process is achieved transparency in selection and the Corporation has received lot of

applause from the public and candidates.

12.17 KIOSK ( Leave Management System):

In order to bring transparency in leave management at depots, it is continued the Leave Management KIOSK in all the depots of KSRTC. Further, during the year this system is being implemented in Divisional workshops/ Regional workshops and Printing press

• Technical coordination in design, development and testing of application • Coordinated with the firm and division / depot officials to resolve technical issues.

12.18 Intelligent Transport System:

Intelligent Transport System has been implemented in all buses of Mysore City Transport Division.

Operational acceptance had been issued and the project is under Operation and Maintenance phase. The

initiative has won both National and International awards. New logics for the MIS reports have been

implemented. To develop mobile Application for the project an Appathon had been organized.

12.19 Vehicle Tracking and Monitoring System:

In the first phase the Corporation is implementing VTMS and PIS Project in 2000 buses and PIS at 35

major Bus Stations. Currently 2000 VMUs and 14 PIS display boards in 8 Bus stations have been installed.

The required support is being given for integration of ETM, Awater with VTMS project. All schedules of BCD,

express & above schedules of RMN, MYS®, MNG and Putturu division is covered under first phase in 27

depots. From last one year, it is obtaining the Utilities in the following points from VTMS-PIS project .

• Accident and Breakdown analysis

• Educating over speeding drivers (Driver behavior)

• KMPL tackling-Mileage

• Schedule operations/ rationalisation analysis

• Real time location for various reasons

• Kms comparison

• Information used for Intelligence/complaints

• Others

Apart from all these, the Corporation has initiated for upgradation, integration and centralization of all

IT applications in enabling web based service platform and supporting all offices of KSRTC by providing

required computers accessories and technical support for computerization.

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CHAPTER – 13 GENERAL

13.1.1 PRINTING PRESS:

The KST Press at Bengaluru functions as an independent unit attached to the Central Office. As at the end of the year 2015-16 the press had a staff strength of 76 employees.

13.1.2 PRODUCTION :

The itemwise production details during the year under report as compared with those of previous year are furnished below in Table-39.

TABLE – 39 (in lakhs)

Sl. No.

Items 2015-16 2014-15

1 Loose forms 263.60 270.90

2 Pads 0.46 0.44

3 Books, registers and others 3.15 3.20

4 Ticket books 64.47 88.47

5 Ticket and luggage books supplied to other divisions/Corporations.

62.98 88.44

6 Luggage books 0.03 0.03

Total 394.69 451.48

13.1.3 VALUE OF TICKET BOOKS SUPPLIED:

The conversion value of ticket books of various denominations supplied to operating units of the Corporation during 2015-16 was Rs.1.23 crore as against Rs.1.64 crore of last year.

13.1.4 ADDITIONAL WORKS UNDERTAKEN:

During the year under report, the printing and supply of stationery like Audit reports, Board meeting notices, Annual Administration Report, Visiting cards, Invitation cards, Letter heads, Monthly passes, Scribbling pads, Index sheet forms, Board meeting vakalath forms, Enquiry notices and New year greeting cards were taken up.

13.1.5 REVENUE EARNED FROM OTHER ORGANISATION JOBS:

During the year under report KST Press took the printing work of other transport undertakings such as NWKRTC, NEKRTC and BMTC and earned an amount of Rs.410.28 lakhs. The details are shown in Table-40.


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TABLE – 40 ( Rs. in lakhs )

Sl. No. Organisation

Revenue earned by supplying

tickets

Revenue earned By supplying

stationery Total

1 B.M.T.C. 122.67 135.82 258.49

2 N.E.K.R.T.C. -- 58.43 58.43

3 N.W.K.R.T.C. -- 93.40 93.40

Total 122.67 287.65 410.32

13.1.6 None of the machineries was scrapped during the year 2015-16.

13.1.7 DETAILS OF RAW METERIALS PURCHASED & CONSUMED: The details of raw materials purchased and consumed during the year compared to previous year are as under.

Sl.No. Description 2015-16 2014-15

1 Paper used for printing of tickets in self driven rotary & letter press ticket machines.

23712 Kg. 121060 Kg.

2 Paper used for printing of stationery . 257560 Kg. 267921 Kg.

Total 281272 Kg. 388981Kg.

3 Expenditure incurred on purchase of raw materials like ink, paper, nylo plate, spare parts, ETM reels, computer stationery, pay slips, advance reservation tickets etc.

Rs.318.45 lakhs Rs.587.54 lakhs

13.2.1 LAW:

The Corporation has 8509 cases pending before various courts as on 31-03-2015. These cases have been pending from the level of trial courts to the Supreme Court. The trial court cases are dealt at divisional level by the Law Officers/Assistant Law Officers working at the divisional level by coordinating with the panel advocates. Appeals, writ petitions and cases before the Supreme Court are dealt by the law department at central office level. The above cases comprise of labour court cases, motor vehicle claim cases, workmen’s compensation, gratuity, consumer forum and commercial cases, original suits etc.

13.2.2 M.V.C Cases Pending before MACTs :

As on 31-03-2015, 3441 MVC cases were pending before various MACTs. During the year under report 1284 cases were received, 1477+23* cases were disposed of and out of which 406 cases were decided in favour of the Corporation and 1071 against the Corporation. The divisionwise details are furnished in Table - 41.


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TABLE- 41

Division Pending

as on 31-03-14

Received during

the year 2015-16

Disposed during the year Pending

as on 31-03-15 For Against Total

Bengaluru Central 342 98 28 59 87+9* 344

Ramanagara 284 77 75 69 144 217

Tumkur 212 98 36 103 139+8* 163

Kolar 275 69 16 83 99 245

Chikkaballapura 215 90 22 68 90 215

Mysore city transport 65 44 9 34 43 66

Mysore Rural 256 104 15 95 110 250

Mandya 233 62 11 59 70 225

Chamarajanagar 263 114 28 83 111 266

Hassan 269 99 16 72 88 280

Chikkamagaluru 256 108 15 110 125 239

Mangalore 214 113 61 65 126 201

Puttur 215 86 21 68 89 212

Davangere 342 122 53 103 156.6* 302

Total 3441 1284 406 1071 1477+23* 3225

* 23 are transferred cases

13.2.3 Matters Pending before Labour Courts/Industrial Tribunals :

2073 cases were pending as on 31-03-2015 and during the year 294 cases were received. 425 labour court cases were decided in favour of KSRTC and 131 against the Corporation as against 425+1*+76** disposals during the year. The divisionwise details are furnished in Table - 42.

TABLE- 42

Division Pending

as on 31-03-15

Received during

the year

Disposed during the year Pending as on

31-03-16 For Against Total

Bengaluru Central 513 143 36 14 50+1* 605

Ramanagara 100 19 13 14 27 92

Tumkur 254 35 9 22 31+76** 182

Kolar 135 39 10 25 35 139


Mysore City transport 116 68 35 4 39 145

Mysore Rural 60 105 22 1 23 142


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Mandya 27 21 3 2 5 43

Chamarajnagara 22 8 8 1 9 21

Hassan 74 73 29 9 38 109

Chikkamagaluru 89 99 12 10 22 166

Mangalore 119 25 9 6 15 129

Puttur 24 6 2 4 6 24

Davangere 405 100 99 10 109 396

Total 2073 770 294 131 425+1*+76** 2341

* 9 are transferred cases and **cases are SL applications filed by the Corporation in dismissal cases

13.2.4 Original Suits pertaining to Commercial Establishments and Land Matters: As on 31-03-2015, there were 15 original suits pertaining to commercial establishments and land matters pending at divisional level. 1 cases were received during 2015-16. Out of these cases (including pending cases as of last year), 8 cases were disposed in favour of the Corporation and 8 cases were pending as on 31-3-2015. 13.2.5 Gratuity Matters Pending at Divisional Level:

There were 979 gratuity cases of divisions pending before various controlling authorities and appellate authorities at High Court as on 31-03-2014. 525 cases were received during the year 2015-16. 479 cases were disposed of, out of which 73 cases were decided in favour of the Corporation and 406 against the Corporation during year under report. Divisionwise gratuity cases pending are given at Table-43.

TABLE- 43

Division Pending

as on 31-03-15 Received

during the year Disposed during the year Pending

as on 31-03-16 For Against Total

Bengaluru Central 192 133 31 114 145 180

Ramanagara 62 40 4 11 15 87

Tumkur 138 20 0 67 67 91

Kolar 75 51 6 47 53 73


Mysore City Transport 112 51 7 55 62 101

Mysore Rural 87 72 2 50 52 107

Mandya 14 3 0 7 7 10

Chamarajnagara 6 2 1 2 3 5

Hassan 49 25 1 12 13 61

Chikkamagaluru 38 36 0 9 9 65

Mangalore 22 7 1 1 2 27

Puttur 11 17 0 0 0 28

Davangere 135 20 17 10 27 128

Total 979 525 73 406 479 1025


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13.2.6 Cases Pending before High Courts and the Supreme Court :

Further, the number of cases pertaining to accident, service, labour and commercial matters disposed in favour/against KSRTC and pending before High Courts/ the Supreme Court as on 31-03-2015 and the success rate before High Court for the period from 01-04-2015 to 31-03-2016 are shown in Table – 44 and Table-45 respectively.

TABLE - 44

Particulars

Cases pending

as on 31-03-15

Received during

the year

No of cases disposed during the year

Pending as on

31-03-16 Favour Against Total

1. Accident matters

MFAs before High Court 1145 682 161 303 464 1363

SLPs before Supreme Court 24 7 3 18 21 10

2. Service matters

WPs/WAs before High Court 189 198 135 7 142 245


3. Labour matters

WPs/WAs before High Court 439 181 64 24 88 532


4. Commercial matters

WPs/WAs in High Court 55 44 24 2 26 73


5. Gratuity matters

WPs/WAs in High Court 134 72 17 0 17 189


Total High Court cases 1962 1177 401 336 737 2402

Total Supreme Court cases 39 15 3 21 24 30


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Table – 45

Success Rate of Cases before High Courts

Labour 72.7%

Service 95.1%

Accident (MFA) 34.7%

Commercial 92.3%

Gratuity 100.0%

Overall 54.4%

13.3.1 Awards:

The Corporation bagged the following awards for its outstanding performance over the years.

1. Union Transport Minister's Trophy for the lowest accident record in 1998-2001.

2. Parisara Award by the Govt. of Karnataka-2001.

3. IRTE Prince Michael International Road Safety Award-2002.

4. Safety Award by the Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport 2001-02.

5. Petroleum Conservation Research Association Award-2001-02 & 2002-03.

6. Golden Peacock Environment Management Award-2003.

7. Golden Peacock Eco Innovation Award - 2004.

8. Runner-up award from PCRA for the best improvement in HSD KMPL during 2001-02.

9. Winner Award from PCRA for the best improvement in HSD KMPL during 2002-03 & 2003-04.

10. OSHAS 18001, ISO 14001 & 9001 Certification for conformance towards occupational health & safety management system standards.

11. Safety Innovation Award for safety & quality by the Institute of Engineers, New Delhi-2006.

12. Dubai Best Practices Award by Dubai Municipality for environment management through multi pronged strategy in India-2006.

13. EMPI Indian Express Indian Innovation Award-2006, New Delhi.

14. Bagged Award for Excellence-2008 from the Ministry of Urban Development, Central Government, for introducing 100% Electronic Ticketing Machine to issue tickets in Mysore city for city operations- 2008.

15. Award for Excellence-2009 in Urban Transport Projects under JnNURM initiatives for urban transport projects-2009, and Karnataka is the first state which implemented Automated Electronic Driving Test System for the recruitment of drivers in State Road Transport Corporation

16. Golden Peacock Innovative Product/Service Award-2010.


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17. National Award for exemplary implementation of e-Governance initiatives in 2015-16 among PSUs category by DAR&PG, GOI for web based passenger reservation system.

18. Best Transport Corporation Award-2010 from the British Quality Foundation.

19. Annual Chief Minister’s Ratna Award-2015-16 for best performing meritorious State Public Sector Enterprise from the Govt. of Karnataka.

20. Golden Peacock Eco-Innovation Award 2010 for eco-friendly measures.

21. Green Warrior Award from the Deccan Chronicle Green Award initiative mBillionth South Asia-2010 Award in recognition of AWATAR Mobile booking.

22. Earth Care Award –2010 for innovation in environment and climate protection.

23. India Pride Award-2010 for Infrastructure development and transportation.

24. Golden Peacock Eco Innovation Award-2010.

25. The World is Open Award-2010 for successful implementation of ETM.

26. Mantan South Asia Award-2010 for AWATAR implementation.

27. Award of Excellence by the Ministry of Urban Development Govt. of India- 2010 for clean development mechanism.

28. Public Relation Council of India (PRCI)- Best Public Service Campaign Award-2010.

29. Public Relation Council of India- Best Corporate Brochure Award-2010.

30. Rajiv Gandhi National Quality Award- 2009

31. Asia’s Best Employer Award-2011.

32. Edward de Bone’s Award-2010.

33. RASBIC Award 2010.

34. Global HR Excellence award 2010.

35. UITP Political Commitment Award 2010.

36. National 1st FIEO and Telecom Technology Award for successful implementation of mobile booking by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, GOI.

37. Volvo Sustainable Mobility Award-2011 for successful implementation of city service in Tumkur and Hassan cities.

38. Award for Excellence-2011 for a unique public transport initiative in providing sustainable mobility for medium and small towns.

39. ASRTU National Award for making highest profit among STUs.

40. PRCI Best Coffee Table Book Gold Award 2012.

41. PRCI Best In –House Magazine (Vernacular) Silver Award 2012.

42. PRCI Best Best Corporate Film Silver Award 2012.

43. National Telecom Award-2012 for innovation in public service applications.


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44. Special Mention Award from the International Transport Forum Germany for successful implementation of city services in Tumkur and Hassan.

45. Digiratti Award-2012 for successful marketing campaign.

46. SKOCH DIGITAL INCLUSION GOLD AWARD-2012 for implementation of Intelligent Transport System (ITS) in Mysore city.

47. KSRTC Managing Director Sri. N. Manjunatha Prasad, IAS, bagged the Best Chief Executive Officer of the year 2012 Award instituted by the Indian Institute of Materials Management (IIMM).

48. ASRTU Award for profit making STU in mofussil services for the year 2012-13.

49. KSRTC received Apollo CV Award-2013 as the best public fleet operator of the year-2013 for its innovative project of Intelligent Transport System (ITS) implemented in Mysore.

50. Golden Peacock Award-2013 for implementing nation’s first Intelligent Transport System (ITS) in Mysore city.

51. PRCI Corporate Collateral Awards in 5 different categories for its Online News Letter, Kannada Coffee Table Book, Corpoarate Advertisement, Documentary Film and its Commercial Advertisement for TV.

52. Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation Annual Administration Report 2015-16.

53. IIMM–SCM Best Innovation Award 2013 for successfully installing Intelligent Transport System (ITS) in Mysore city.

54. International Public Transport Award (UITP)- Innovation Award 2013 for successfully installing Intelligent Transport System (ITS) in Mysore city.

55. ASRTU Award for profit making STU in mofussil area during the year 2012-13 in the country.

56. Apollo CV Award for best public sector bus fleet operator of the year 2014.

57. PRCI Corporate Collateral Silver Award for corporate advertisement 2014.

58. PRCI Corporate Collateral Silver Award for documentary film 2014.

59. PRCI Corporate Collateral Silver Award for television commercial.

60. PRCI Corporate Collateral Bronze Award for television documentary 2014.

61. KSRTC awarded as Bengaluru’s Hot Brand Award -2014.

62. KSRTC won India prestigious India Says Yes award-2014 in the category of AC BUS JOURNEYS WITH KSRTC.

63. Golden Peacock Innovative Product/Service Award-2014 for ITS Mysore.

64. Global Brand Excellence PR Professional of the year award-2014.

65. Global Brand Excellence Award-2014 for Fly Bus initiative -2014.

66. SKOTCH Best Top 100 initiatives in the country for FLYBUS Initiative-2014.

67. Award of Excellence by Ministry of Urban Development, Govt.of India 2014 for Mysore Intelligent Transport System Project.


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68. PRCI Corporate Collateral Silver Award for corporate Inhouse magazine 2014.

69. PRCI Corporate Collateral Silver Award for Advertisement film 2014.

70. PRCI Corporate Collateral Platinum Award for television commercial.

71. ASRTU transport Innovation National Award 2015 for staff duty rota and leave Kiosk.

72. ASRTU transport Innovation National Award 2015 for Environment Management.

Further during the year 2015-16 KSRTC bagged the following awards.

• CMAK Karnataka’s Best Practice Award for Automated Driving Test System

• ASRTU Transport Innovation Award for Staff Duty Rota System and Leave Management Kiosk

System

• ASRTU Transport Innovation Award for Environment Management

• Greentech HR Technology Excellence Award for Staff Duty Rota System & Leave Management Kiosk

System

• UITP Transport Award for Staff Duty Rota System at Milan Italy

• Bangalore Hot 50 Brand Award for KSRTC

• Supply Chain Management Award for Karnataka State Road Transport

• ASRTU National Transport Excellence Award for IT initiatives

• ASRTU Productivity Award for Minimum Operational Cost Mysore Urban Service

• India Bus Awards for ‘Staff Duty Rota System’ under the category Excellence in Employee Welfare

• Intelligent Transport System of Mysore City under the category Excellence in Bus Transport Service

in India. India Bus Award

• India’s Hot Brand Award

• SKOTCH Best Top 100 initiatives in the country for FLYBUS Initiative

• SKOTCH Best Top 100 initiatives in the country for Organised city bus services at small and medium

towns and cities-

• SKOTCH Best Top 100 initiatives in the country for Staff Duty Rota System

• SKOTCH Smart Governance Award Organised Public Transport city bus for small and medium towns

and cities

• 2nd Annual PSU Award for Intelligent Transport System at Mysore City

• Award of Excellence by Ministry of Urban Development, Govt.of India for the 6th time in a row, for

the initiative of providing organized city bus services for small and medium towns and cities.


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13.4.1 INTERNAL AUDIT :

The important objective of the Internal Audit department is to verify the discrepancies in the books of

accounts and also to find out lapses at divisions and depot level, besides suggesting suitable corrective

actions. To exercise control over the budget, bringing discipline in the financial transactions are some of the

important duties of this department.

• Verified daily traffic revenue collection of 78 depots and divisions, proper accountal and maintenance of cash books, as per Circular instructions and daily revenue remittance to KSRTC pool collection account.

• Verified the physical stock of manual tickets, students passes, monthly pass and daily passes along with DCS stock to ensure their proper accountal. Action taken on the disposal of absolute ticket stock and passes stock at depots and divisions. The idle trays at depots were identified and reported for distribution among conductors to avoid misappropriation.

• Verified HSD receipts and issues at depots with respect to Circular No.5 and 27 and ensured regular inspection by security staff and Decanting team.

• Verified the staff salaries with respect to their attendance and leave orders to avoid excess payments, Back wages and arrears bills with respect to court orders to avoid excess payments, Pay slips and increment sheets along with the service registers to avoid excess payments.

• Verified the commercial establishments of the divisions regarding the license fee, stamp fee, service tax, water and electricity payments as per circular instructions. Further, to reduce the inventory cost, local purchase statements have been verified Periodically.

• Verified the disposal of default cases under section 22 and disposal of default cases under section 23 within reasonable time.

• Verified the Government receipts on account of Government casual contracts, Police warrants, Jail warrant, Lokayuktha warrants etc., to ensure timely recovery.

• Verified the allotment of staff quarters and rent recoveries and water bill recoveries to ensure timely recovery.

• Verified the records related to payment of over time, bata and incentive to Drivers and Conductors of the Depots to avoid excess payments.

• Verified the records pertaining to Annual Financial Reports for the period 2014-15 of divisions and Central offices.

• Verified the records related to implementation of MMIC in Divisional Stores verification of stocks, obsolete and surplus items at Divisional Stores.

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The position of the Audit paras as on 31-03-2016 is as follows

Opening Balance as on 1-4-2015 : 176

Audit paras received during 2015-16 : 13

Total Audit Paras : 189

Audit paras closed during year 2015-16 : 22

Audit para pending as on 31-3-2016 : 167

The Internal Audit Department has verified the implementation of Circular instructions and GSOs issued from time to time by Central Offices. It helps to improve the performance of divisions and depots. It has led

the corporation towards progress in the right track.

13.5.1 ACCIDENT RELIEF FUND:

Accident Relief Fund trust was formed w.e.f 01-06-2002 in order to provide immediate financial relief to the legal heirs of the passengers who die in road accidents while traveling in KSRTC buses. The relief paid by the trust is in addition to MACT claims.

Initially Rs. 1/- was collected as Safety cess from each Passengers who purchases a ticket of Rs. 20/- and above, thereafter the slab has enhanced to Rs. 40/- w.e.f. 11-06-2003 & once again the slab has enhanced to Rs.100/- w.e.f. 01-08-2004. Collection of Accident Relief Fund Fee was totally discontinued w.e.f. 01-09-2008.

In addition, the Trust has increased collection of ARF contribution from student passes from existing Rs2.00 to Rs. 5.00 per month w.e.f.01.06.2016. This apart, the Trust has also started collection of Rs.50/- per bus from casual contracts w.e.f. 01.06.2014. Trust expects an additional income upto Rs.9.00 crore p.a. from all the above sources. Presently, Rs.2.50 lakhs to be paid to the legal heirs of the passengers who die in road accidents while traveling in KSRTC buses.

The details of settlement of claims & amount paid towards interim compensation to the legal heirs of the deceased and the injured passengers to meet the cost of medical treatment during the year 2015-16 are as under.

Year No. of Claims Total Amount (Rs. in lakhs)

2015-16 31 77.50

13.5.2 OTHER INITIATIVES OF THE TRUST :

1. The trust has extended immense service of providing immediate medical relief to the passengers injured in road accidents involving KSRTC buses. During the year 2015-16, the Corporation incurred Rs.199.00 lakhs towards ex-gratia payments to the victims in accidents and it was Rs.509.00 lakhs during 2014-15.

2. The trust also pays interim compensation to injured/ legal heirs of the deceased in the road accident.


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3. The trust maintains 8 wreckers to carryout rescue operations in accident spot and incurred Rs.42.53 lakhs towards maintenance of these vehicles.

4. The trust has spent Rs.3.21 crores for passenger amenities in various bus stations

13.6 RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT 2005:

The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation being a public sector undertaking complies with

the Right to Information Act-2005 after its publication in gazette vide Notification issued under No.DPAR-

74/RTI/ 2005 (Part-2) dated 11-10-2005.

Public Information Officers / Asst. Public Information Officers and Appellate Authorities were

appointed in KSRTC at the Central/ Divisional/ Depot/Regional Workshop level vide Notification No.

KST/CO/ADM/SR/340/70/2005-06 dated 21-10-2005.

The details of applications received/disposed of under the Right to Information Act-2005 during the

financial year 2015-16 are as under.

1 Total no. of applications pending as on 31-3-2015 288

2 Total no. of applications received during the year 6931

3 Information provided to within due date 6442

4 Information provided after due date 609

5 Replied to Government /other authorities 1252

6 Total amount of fees/charges collected during the year ( in Rupees)

94973

7 Total amount collected as cost of copies during the year ( in Rupees)

112691

8

1. Appeals pending

2. Appeals received

3. Disposed

45

491

410

13.7 QUESTIONS RECEIVED FROM CENTRAL/STATE LEGISLATURE:

During the year under report, 148 starred/unstarred questions related to Legislative Assembly, 3 questions under Rule 351, 10 questions under Rule 73, 3 questions under Rule 72, one questions under Rule 330, 4 zero hour questions, 94 starred/unstarred questions from legislature council totaling to 264 questions from the State Legislature and one question pertaining to Loka sabha were received and replied on time.


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Achievements during 2015-16

• With a view to ensure that the passengers get the details of the services and availability of the seats in the buses, Vechicle Tracking Monitoring System (VTMS) is being implemented and it is already installed in 2000 buses.

• “FLY bus” is being operated from Kempegowda International Air Port, Bangalore to Mysore and Kempegowda International Air Port to Udupi, Kundapura & Manipal to facilitate direct passengers.

• During the year 2015-16, tender and Negotiation ( Discount, Credit facility and Infrastructure ) with M/s BPCL has been made for supply of Diesel (HSD). On account of which, the Corporations could save a total amount of Rs.359.56 crores ( All Corporation put together for 3 years of the contract).

• In order to identify the Noise and Smoke emission of the vehicles the Corporation has introduced mobile smoke emission and noise level checking service which is first of its kind in State Transport undertaking (STUs).

• To ensure transparency in providing leave to the Crew and Mechanical staff, Computerized leave Kiosk has been implemented in all the depots of the Corporation.

• KSRTC has started a pilot project on trial basis for 10 buses, using 20% Bio-Diesel blended fuel without any change in the technology of the engine modification. Further, KSRTC is having a plan to use Bio-Diesel on larger scale in the coming days.

• City services are introduced in Mangalore under JnNURM scheme.

• To facilitate commuters, the information regarding vehicle number, departure time, route and via places are announced in main 68 Bus stand/Bus stations of KSRTC through Passenger Announcement System (PAS).

• Four New bus stations were Constructed at Huliyurdurga, Hunsur old bus station, Kattemaralwadi and Bilikere. The bus Station at Puttur which has been constructed through Public private partner ship (PPP) has been commissioned. New Divisional Works Shop have been constructed in Puttur division on 09-01-2016.

• During the financial year 2015-16 the Corporation has made a profit of Rs.50.95 crores after providing all the provisions for the known liabilities as on 31-3-2016.


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SCHEDULE – A

STATEMENT SHOWING THE NUMBER OF MEETINGS ATTENDED BY THE BOARD DIRECTORS/INVITEE DURING THE YEAR 2015-16

Sl. No Name Director/

Invitee

Period of Office No. of Board meetings attended From To

1

SRI. RAMALINGAREDDY Hon’ble Minister for Transport, Govt. of Karnataka and Hon’ble Chairman, KSRTC.

Chairman 01-04-2015

31-03-2016

4

2 Dr. LOHIT D. NAIKAR, Hon’ble Vice Chairman, KSRTC.

Vice-Chairman 01-04-2015 31-03-2016 3

3

SRI. I.S.N. PRASAD.,IAS., Principal Secretary to Government, Finance department, Government of Karnataka.

Director 01-04-2015 31-03-2016 3

4

SRI. P. RAVIKUMAR.,IAS., Additional Secretary to Government, Transport Department, Government of Karnataka.

Director 01-04-2015 14-12-2015 3

5

Dr. E.V. RAMANA REDDY,IAS., Principal Secretary to Government, Transport Department, M.S.Building, Government of Karnataka.

Director 14-12-2015 31-03-2016 1

6 SRI. RAJENDER KUMAR KATARIA,IAS., Managing Director, KSRTC.

Director 01-04-2015 31-03-2016 4

7 DR. EKROOP CAUR, IAS., Managing Director, BMTC.

Director 01-04-2015 31-03-2016 4

8 SRI. B.N.S. REDDY, IPS., Director (Security & Vigilance),KSRTC.

Director 01-04-2015 23-01-2016

28-04-2015 31-03-2016

2

9 SRI. SOUMENDU MUKHERJEE, IPS., Director (Security & Vigilance),KSRTC.

Director 28-04-2015 04-01-2016 2

10 Dr. B.A. MAHESH, IPS., Director (Security & Vigilance),BMTC.

Director 29-04-2015 31-03-2016 3

11 SMT.R.VINOTH PRIYA,IAS., Managing Director, NWKRTC.

Director 01-04-2015 28-10-2015

19-09-2015 31-03-2016

4

12 DR. RAMEGOWDA, IAS., Commissioner, Transport and Road Safety.

Director 01-04-2015 31-03-2016 4

13 SRI. G.N.SHIVAMURTHY,IAS., Managing Director, NEKRTC.

Director 01-04-2015 31-07-2015 2

14 SRI. H.S. ASHOKANANDA,IAS., Managing Director, NEKRTC.

Director 10-08-2015 31-03-2016 1


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15 SMT. SALMA K. FAHIM, IAS., Director(P & E), KSRTC.

Director 24-07-2015 02-11-2015 1

16 SRI. A.G. BHAT, KAS (Super time Scale), Director(P & E), KSRTC

Director 11-01-2016 31-3-2016 1

1 Metropolitan Commissioner, BMRDA. Govt. of Karnataka.

Invitee* 01-04-2015 31-03-2016 2

* In terms of Section 19(a) of BMRDA Act 1985, the Metropolitan Commissioner, BMRDA, is being invited to attend the meetings of the Board of KSRTC as ‘Invitee’.


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SCHEDULE – B

DIVISION WISE DETAILS OF DEPOTS, BUS STATIONS AND CONTROL POINTS AS ON 31-03-2016

Sl. No

Division Depot Bus station Control point

01 Bangalore© Depot-1,Depot-2 ,Depot-4

Depot-5,Depot-6 Nelamangla

(6)

Nelamangala (1)

Shantinagara, Tirupati, Chennai,Coimbatore

(Gandhinagara), Coimbatore(Mettupalya),

Trishur, Ooty, Puna, Mumbai(Central), Tiruchi,

K.R.Puram, Calicut, Ernakulam (13)

02 Ramanagara KKP,AKL,CPT, HRH,RMN,MGD

(6)

Kanakapura,Satnur, Kodihalli,Anekal,Channapatna,

Harohalli,Doddamaralavadi Ramanagar, Magadi,

(9)

Kalasipalya-Hosure/Anekal Kalasipalya-

Kanakapura,Bidadi Hosur

(4) 03 Tumkur TMK-1, TMK-2

KGL,TVK, SIRA,PGD,TPT

(7)

Tumkur, Gubbi, Nitur, Dabuspet,Koratagere,

Hebburu, Kunigal. Amrutturu, Solur,

Huliyurdurga,Turuvekere, Chikkanayakanahalli, Sira,

Kallambella, Madhugiri, Tiptur, Nonavinakere

(17)

Kyatasandra, Hosadurga.K.B.Cross,

Pavagada (4)

04 Kolar KLR,KGF,SVP, MLR,MBL(5)

Kolar,KGF, Srinivasapura, Mulabagilu,Bangarpet(5)

Hosakote, Chittur,Malur,Vemagal

Narasapura,(5)

05 Chickballapura CBP, DBP, CNT,BGP, GWB(5)

Chintamani, Bagepalli, Gowribidanoor,

Doddaballapura, Gudibande,Mandikal,

Sidlagatta (7)

Chikkaballapura, Doddaballapura

Vijayapura, Devanahalli,,

Hindupura,Cavery Bhavan Bangalore (6)

06 Mysore City Transport

Bannimantap, Kuvempunagar

Satagalli, Vijaya nagar(4)

CBS, R.S.Naidunagar, Kuvempunagar llawala,

Satagalli , (5)

Infosys,KRS, Jayapura, Chamundi Betta,

Kumbarakoppalu (5)

07 Mysore Rural Moffusil Depot-1 Moffussil Depot-2, Moffussil Depot-3

KRG,HUN,HD Kote, (6)

MBS, K.R.Nagar, Mirle, Saligrama,Hosur, Bettadapura,

Ravandur, Kittur, Hunasuru, Hunasuru (old),Periyapatna, H.D.Kote, Saragur, Bilikere,

Kattemaralvadi (15)

H.D.Kote handpost (1)


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08

Mandya MDY,MDR,MLV, NGML,K.R.PET

PNDPR (6)

Mandya, Maddur, Malavalli, Nagamangla, K.R.Pet,

Pandavapura, Bannuru, Belakawadi,Halguru,

Adichunchanagiri,Kikeri, Sirangapatna, ,

Melukote,Chinakurali (14)

Bellur, M-Koppalu, Bariya, Koppa, Holalu(5)

09 Chamaraja nagar

CRN,GPT,KLG, NJD,(4)

Chamarajanagara, Terkanambi,Gundlupet, Begur,

Hullahalli,Nanjangudu, ,M.M.Hills (7)

Yalanduru,Kollegala,Hanuru, T.Narasipura

(4)

10 Hassan HSN-1,CRP,RNP, HNP,ARK,HSN-2

(6)

Hassan New Bus stand, Channarayapatna,

Holenarsipura, ,Ramanathapura ,Arkalgudu

Alur, Halebidu, Konanur, Shravanabelagula, Shanthigrama, Hallimysore,

Salagame, Nuggenahalli, Dudda, Gorur,

(15)

--

11 Chikkmagalur CKM,ARS,SKP, KDR,MDG

(5)

Chikkamagalur, Arasikere, Sakalespura,

Mudigere,Kadur,Birur,Tarikere, Kalasapura,Kottigehar,

Belur,Javagal,Banavara, J.C.Pura,Panchanahalli, Gandasi,Sakkarepatna,

Nidaghatta(17)

Shringeri,Kodlipet (2)

12 Mangalore MNG-1, MNG-2, MNG-3,CDP,UDUPI

(5)

Mangalore, Kundapura,

(2)

Pumpwell,Kasargodu, Udupi, Karkala,

Manipal, State Bank, Mudbidre (7)

13 Puttur PTR,DSL,MDK, B.C.Road.

(4)

Puttur, Dharmastala, Madikeri, Subramnya,Sulya , Ujire,Vittla,

Nellyadi,Kushalnagara, Somavarapet, Virajapet,

Hebbale (12)

Bellare,Uppinangadi, Dharmastala Old Bus

Stand,Belthangadi,B.C.Road, Kadaba, Gonikoppa (7)

14 Davanagere DVG,SMG, CDG, HRH,BVT,

SGR, HRPN,Challakere,

Honnali (9)

Davanagere, Shivamogga, Holaluru, Honnali,

Chitrradurga, Hiriyur, Shrigere,Baramasagara, Harihara, Malebennur,

Bhadravati, sagara,Soraba Harappanhalli, Chigateri,

Bennehalli, Telagi,Jagalur (18)

Challakere,Channagiri, Danvagere High school

(3)

15 KBS ---- Kempegowda Bus Station, MRBS,NGEF, Penya,

Devanahalli, Balekaymandi (6)

Hosakote, Sondekoppa (2)

Total 78 150 68


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SCHEDULE-C FARE STRUCTURE WITH EFFECT FROM 09/10-01/2015

1. Ordinary Service 58.70 paise per km. subject to a minimum fare Rs. 7.00 for a stage of 3.0 kms. and Rs.9 for a stage of 6.5 kms or part thereof

2. Express

Service

89.75 paise per km. subject to a minimum fare Rs. 10.00 for a stage of 6.5 kms. or part thereof.

3. Ultra-Deluxe (Rajahamsa)

Services

131.00 paise per km. subject to a minimum fare Rs. 20.00 for a distance equal to 1 chargeable stage or part thereof.

4. Semi deluxe/ Sheetal

A/C Karnataka Vaibhav services


5. Non A/C Sleeper services 145.00 paise per km. subject to a minimum fare Rs. 20.00 for a distance equal to 1 chargeable stage or part thereof.

6. Corona (Ambari)/Rajahamsa A/C Service


7. Volvo/Benz 190.00 paise per km. and subject to market conditions.

8 Volvo city 204.00 paise per km. and subject to market conditions.

9 Multi axle/Corona A/C sleeper 214.00 paise per km. and subject to market conditions.

10.

City Services and Sub-urban Services

68.00 paise per km. stage length of 2 kms.


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Chargeable stages

Fare Charts for City and Sub-urban services Fare Charts for Mofussil service

( ordinary and Express)

Ordinary services Express services

Chargeable

stages

Ordinary service

Chargeable stages

Express service

Adult (Rs. Ps.)

Child (Rs. Ps.)

Adult (Rs. Ps.)

Child (Rs.Ps.)

Adult (Rs. Ps.)

Child (Rs. Ps.)

Adult (Rs. Ps.)

Child (Rs. Ps.)

1 5.00 3.00 6.00 3.00 1S 7.00 4.00 1 10.00 5.00

2 8.00 4.00 9.00 5.00 1 9.00 5.00 2 15.00 8.00

3 10.00 5.00 11.00 6.00 2S 10.00 5.00 3 25.00 13.00

4 13.00 7.00 14.00 7.00 2 15.00 8.00 4 30.00 15.00

5 14.00 7.00 15.00 8.00 3S 20.00 10.00 5 33.00 17.00

6 15.00 8.00 16.00 8.00 3 22.00 11.00 6 40.00 20.00

7 15.00 8.00 16.00 8.00 4S 24.00 12.00 7 44.00 22.00

8 16.00 8.00 17.00 9.00 4 25.00 13.00 8 50.00 25.00

9 16.00 8.00 17.00 9.00 5 28.00 14.00 9 55.00 28.00

10 17.00 9.00 18.00 9.00 6 30.00 15.00 10 60.00 30.00

11 17.00 9.00 18.00 9.00 7 33.00 17.00 11 65.00 33.00

12 17.00 9.00 18.00 9.00 8 36.00 18.00 12 70.00 35.00

13 17.00 9.00 18.00 9.00 9 40.00 20.00 13 77.00 39.00

14 18.00 9.00 19.00 10.00 10 42.00 21.00 14 83.00 42.00

15 18.00 9.00 19.00 10.00 11 43.00 22.00 15 90.00 45.00

16 18.00 9.00 19.00 10.00 12 44.00 22.00 16 95.00 48.00

17 18.00 9.00 19.00 10.00 13 46.00 23.00 17 100.00 50.00

18 18.00 9.00 19.00 10.00 14 48.00 24.00 18 106.00 53.00

19 18.00 9.00 19.00 10.00 15 49.00 25.00 19 112.00 56.00

20 18.00 9.00 19.00 10.00 16 50.00 25.00 20 117.00 59.00


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SCHEDULE – D

CASUAL CONTRACT RATES (as on 31-03-2016)

Type of Bus No. of Seats

Rate per km (Rs.)

Minimum Kms.per

day

Minimum amount per day (24 hrs.basis) (Rs.) Exluding

service tax

On hourly basis

(Min.40 Kms per

hour) (Rs.)

Karnataka Sarige 55 32 300 9600 1280

Karnataka Sarige (12-meter chasis) 65 37 300 11100 1480

Rajahamsa-Executive 36 37 350 12950 1727

Rajahamsa (12-meter chasis) 44 42 350 14700 1960

Volvo-Semi sleeper (Single axle) (Mark-1 & Mark-11) 45 50 350 17500 2333

Volvo-Semi sleeper (Single axle) (Mark-111 ) 45 60 400 24000 3200

Mysore city volvo service 38 67 300 20100 2680 Semi Low Floor 42 37 250 9250 1233 Karnataka Vaibhava 44 42 350 14700 1960 Multi axle (Semi sleeper) 47/49 75 500 37500 5000 Airavat Superia 45 100 500 50000 6667 Airavat bliss 43 100 500 50000 6667 Sleeper (A/C) 32 70 400 28000 3733 Sleeper (Non A/C) 32 50 400 20000 2667

Terms and conditions:

1. Re. 1/- Concession to students of recognised schools and colleges of the state (including Intere state travel)

2. Kilometers will be calculated from depot out to depot in.

3. Booking has to be done at least 3 days in advance with full details of the tour programme.

4. Payment has to be made in advance alongwith 20% refundable security deposit.

5. In case of Inter-state contract, permit charges and entry tax shall be extra.

6. Furnishing of passenger list is compulsory in case of Inter-state contract.

7. A day means 24 hours from the time of departure from the depot.

8. In case of delayed arrival, extra amount will be recovered on hourly basis as per above rates. upto 5 hours delay.

9. Re.1/- shall be levied for each Km. on inter state services ( on all type of vehicle)

10. Rs.1000/- shall be levied as special fee per bus for more than two days Inter State Casual Contract

11. Service tax at the rate of 14.5% for the total amount


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SCHEDULE – E

CATEGORYWISE PAY SCALES

Designation Scale of Pay

Chairman To be appointed by the Government

Vice Chairman To be appointed by the Government

Managing Director To be appointed by the Government

Director (P&E) To be appointed by the Government

Director (S&V) To be appointed by the Government

Director (Finance/FA) To be appointed by the Government

General Manager (Personnel) To be appointed by the Government

CLASS-I (SUPERTIME SCALE) OFFICERS

General Manager (Traffic) Rs. 53600-1410-64880-1590-68060

Chief Accounts Officer-Cum-Financial Adviser (10 Years)

(To be appointed by the Government)

CLASS-I (SELECTION GRADE) OFFICERS

Chief Personnel Manager (Disciplinary)

Chief Accounts Officer (I.A)

Chief Planning & Statistical Officer

Chief Mechanical Engineer

Controller of Stores & Purchase

Chief Law Officer

Chief Civil Engineer

Chief Traffic Manager Rs. 43100-1220-49200-1410-59070-

Chief Medical Officer 1590-65430

Manager (HRD) (16 Years)

Chief Systems Manager

Chief Marketing Manager

Chief Security & Vigilence officer

Principal (CTI)

Senior Divisional Controller


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Designation Scale of Pay CLASS-I (SENIOR) OFFICERS Chief Labour & Welfare Officer Joint Chief Security & Vigilence Officer Dy.Chief Personnel Manager Dy.Chief Accounts Officer Dy.Controller of Stores & Purchases Senior Medical Officer Secretary

Executive Engineer (Civil) Rs. 37560-940-39440-1090-42710-1220-50030-

1410-61310

Controller of Printing & Stationery (19 Years)

Divisional Controller Deputy Chief Traffic Manager

Deputy Chief Systems Manager Principal (RTI) Works Manager Chief Public Relations Officer Chief Statistical Officer Mechanical Engineer Deputy Chief Law Officer CLASS-I (JUNIOR) OFFICERS Administrative Officer Accounts Officer Divisional Traffic Officer Divisional Mechanical Engineer Dy.Superintendent (Regional Workshops) Stores Officer Law Officer Dy.Chief Labour Welfare Officer Medical Officer Dy.Controller of Printing Rs. 35180-940-37060-1090-40330-1220-48870 Systems Manager 1410-55920 Dy.Chief Security & Vigilance Officer (17 years) Statistical Officer Senior Personal Secretary Asst.Executive Engineer (Civil) Asst.Executive Engineer (Electrical) Training Manager Estate Officer Senior Depot Manager Sports Officer Public Releations Officer


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Designation Scale of Pay CLASS-II OFFICERS Labour Welfare Officer Asst.Administrative Officer Asst.Accounts Officer Assistant Statistical Officer Assistant Traffic Manager Assistant Mechanical Engineer Assistant Stores Officer Personal Secretary Assistant Law Officer Rs. 26580-810-29820-940-32640-1090 Assistant Controller of Printing 37000-1220-46760 Security & Vigilence Officer (19 Years) Depot Manager Marketing Manager Assistant Engineer (Civil) Assistant Engineer (Elec.) Assistant Systems Manager Assistant Superintendent (Regl.Workshops) Assistant Training Manager Special Officer (Rehabilitation) CLASS-III EMPLOYEES Assistant Works Superintendent Assistant Traffic Superintendent Supervisor (Electrical)

Junior Engineer (Civil Special Grade) Rs.18000-640-19920-730-25030-830-30010

Junior Engineer (Electrical Special Grade) Personal Assistant (16 Years) Superintendent (Stores) Superintendent (Systems) Superintendent (Administration) Superintendent (Accounts) Superintendent (Statistics) Senior Driver Traffic Inspector Chargeman Chargeman (Printing) Divisional Security Inspector Inspector of Accounts Junior Engineer (Civil / Electrical) Rs.16730-420-17570-530-19160-640 Draftsman 22360-730-26010-830-28500 Stenographer (Sr.) (18 Years) Store Keeper Supervisor (Accounts) Supervisor (Administration) Supervisor (Statistics) Supervisor (Systems)


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Designation Scale of Pay Leading Hand/Head Artisan Proof Examiner Assistant Supervisor (Electrical) Senior Compositor Senior Machine Operator Ticket Verifier Assistant Junior Stenographer Assistant Accountant Rs.14970-320-15930-420-16770-530-18360 Statistical Assistant 640-21560-730-26670 Assistant Store Keeper (20 Years) Cashier (Senior) Assistant Security Inspector Boiler Attendent A. C. Electrician Staff Nurse Computer Operator Time Keeper Senior Binder Senior Data Entry Operator Assistant Traffic Inspector Artisan Compositor Binder Machine Operator Electrician Rs.13970-250-14470-320-15750-420-16590 Mechanic (Press)/Ticket Verifier 530-18180-640-20740 Assistant Draughtman (15 Years) Sub-Overseer Work Inspector Watch & Ward Inspector Traffic Controller Security Havaldar Pharmacist JA -cum- data entry operator

Typist Rs. 12590-170-12930-250-14180-320-15780-420-16620-530-18210-640-19490

Cashier (Junior) Receptionist (19 Years)

Tracer X-Ray Technician Junior Laboratory Technician Receptionist


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Designation Scale of Pay Driver Rs. 12400-170-12740-250-14240-320-15840-420 16680-530-18270-640-19550 (20 Years) Assistant Artisan Assistant Compositor

Assistant Binder Rs. 12400-170-12740-250-14240-320-15840-420-17520

Assistant Machine Operator (17 Years) Checker & Packer Care Taker-cum-Cook

Conductor Rs. 11640-140-11920-170-12600-250-14100-320-15700

Cook (Canteen) (17 Years) Security Guard Technical Assistant CLASS- IV EMPLOYEES

Havaldar Rs. 11480-140-11900-170-12750-250-14250-320-15530

Assistant Cook (Canteen) (18 Years) Cashier (Canteen) Helper (Gardening & Head Mali) Helper (Printing) Helper (Security) Helper (Helper-cum-Room Boy Security) Helper (Office) Helper (Home Orderly) Helper (Cycle Orderly)

Helper (Sweeping) Rs.11320-140-12020-170-12870-250-14370-320-15010

Helper (Gardening) (18 Years) Helper (Gardening Mali) Helper (Sweeping-cum-Mali) Tea/Coffee Maker Supplier (Canteen) Grinder (Canteen) Cleaner (Canteen) Attender Dresser


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SCHEDULE – F

DEPRECIATION

Sl. Assumed Life Rate of Annual Amount of Incidence

in

No. Type of Assets In Years In Kms Contribution Revenue Ps.per

km. Exp. in 2015-16 ( Rs. in lakh )

A Buses

1) Medium vehicles such as Leyland/TMB & others 10 560000 Based on

kms. 12626.98 136.46

2) Volvo vehicles 15 1000000 Based on kms. 3611.28 634.28

B Departmental Vehicles. 1.Domestic trucks 4 -- -- --

2.Departmental vehicles such as Cars, 6 1/6 of the

original cost 79.88 0.82

Station Wagons, Jeeps, Motor Cycles C Buildings & Fixtures

1.Pucca Buildings 40 2.5% of the original cost 1196.02 12.35

D Plant & Machinery 1.Light Mechanical & Electrical

20% of the original cost 56.15 0.58

Equipments. 2.Heavy Mechanical & Electrical


Equipments. 3.Tyre retreading machinery 17.74 0.18 4.Ticket machines - Press 11.75 0.12 5. Environment machineries 62.60 0.65 E Misc. Equipments

1.Computer hardware and allied 20% of the


Equipments. 2.Furniture & fictures


3.Hand Ticket Machines 0.94 0.01 4.Fire Fighting Equipments 0.65 0.01

5.Medical Equipments 20% of the


6.Amenity Equipments 14.61 0.15 7.Photographic Equipments 1.97 0.02 8. Electronic tickting machine 132.49 1.37 9. Electronic equipments 62.99 0.65 10. Xerox & fax machines 12.36 0.13 F Interest on Capital 6.25% of the capital provided -- -- by the participating Governments

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APPENDIX -11

ACCOUNTING POLICIES The Corporation has adopted Enterprise Resource Planning, an accounting package - Oracle

Financials w.e.f. 01.02.2000. The Accounts of the Central Offices along with the accounts of all the Units

of the Corporation at Trial Balance level are maintained in Oracle Financials.

1. The Corporation follows Mercantile System of accounting and recognizes Income and Expenditure on accrual basis except otherwise stated specifically.

2. Expenditure on Reconditioning of Vehicles is treated as revenue expenditure.

3. Fixed Assets are stated at cost. These costs are not adjusted to reflect the impact of changing value in purchasing power of money. Further, the Financial Statements are based on historical costs.

4. Computation of depreciation:

a. Depreciation on vehicles is calculated based on the actual KMs covered by the vehicles, assuming the life of the vehicle as 5.60 lakhs KMs.

b. Depreciation on Swaraj Mazda vehicles is also being calculated on the actual KM basis assuming the life of the vehicles as 5.60 lakhs KMs. only, on par with the other vehicles of the Corporation.

c. Depreciation on vehicles, which are off the road for the whole year is not provided for.

d. In respect of Volvo and other premium segment vehicles, the depreciation is worked out on the actual KM run by the vehicles or for the minimum of 1.00 lakh KMs assuming the life of the vehicle as 10.00 lakhs KMs as per the Government order No. SAREE/4/SASUMSO 2007 dated 27/03/07.

e. Depreciation on other Assets is provided on straight-line method at the following rates. Depreciation on assets acquired during the year is being provided on monthly pro-rata basis.

Sl.No Particulars Rate of Depriciation

1 Buildings 2.50%

2 Computer Hardware 20%

3 Heavy Duty Plant & Machinery 10%

4 Medical Equipment 20%

5 Light Duty Plant & Machinery 20%

6 Furniture, Fixtures & others 10%


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5. MV Tax is calculated and provided for at 5% plus cess of 11% on tax, on the traffic revenue realized during the year excluding the revenue realized in the territory of Maharashtra State as per G.O. No.FTD 114 TMT 89 dated 08.06.1990.

6. As per directions of RPFC, the share of Employer contribution to PF should be at 12% on Basic Pay and DA, the same is being followed.

7. Gratuity claims of the employees are being settled out of revenues of the Corporation. The claims are settled as per the Gratuity Regulations or as per the Payment of Gratuity Act, whichever is beneficial to the employees, as per the Circular No.4/99 Dated 30-04-1999.

8. Stock of Stores: a. Materials received in the Units of KSRTC not taken on charge as on the date of closure of

accounts due to non-completion of Inspection formalities are not accounted in the books of Accounts.

b. Materials issued to workshops for their immediate requirements from Stores are treated as consumption. Hence, the value of materials lying on shop floor at the end of the year is not taken into value of stock of stores.

9. The minimum compensation payable under No fault liability clause as per section 140 of the Motor vehicle Act-1988 is carried in the Accounts for a period of 4 years. Any claims received for the earlier years will be treated on cash basis.

10. The deferred revenue expenditure is amortized as follows:

a. Major assemblies fitted to the vehicles- for 5 years.

b. Civil works like asphalting and re-chip and carpeting, rewiring etc., for 3 Years.

c. Cost of refurbishing/repairs of buses for 3 years.

11. EMD/SD and the deposits outstanding for more than 3 years are to be transferred to miscellaneous revenue. Wherever contracts/ works continued for more than three years, such deposits are continued in the deposit Account.

12. Liability on civil works is provided on the basis of the certified bills.

13. Grants received from JnNURM/SDP and other Grants are accounted under Reserves & Surplus. The principles under Accounting Standard IAS- 12 are broadly followed in this regard.

14. Encashment of leave to the retired employees is being met out of the revenues of the Corporation, due to the fact that major workforce of the Corporation will have less number of days of leave to their credit at the time of Cessation.

15. Insurance Claim Receivable: Out of the total fleet strength, Volvo and other premier segment vehicles are covered under “comprehensive Insurance Policy”.


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16. The 50% of the Cost of Accident Repair of Volvo/Premier Buses covered under ‘ comprehensive

Insurance Policy’ is booked as expenditure in the books of Account as and when the Repair Bills

are Certified and passed for payment, balance 50% is shown as receivable from Insurance Company.

17. The figures are rounded off to the nearest of thousand rupees.

NOTES FORMING PART OF BALANCE SHEET AND PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT

1. The Stock of Stores at the end of the financial year has been valued at weighted average rate and they consist of the following:

a. Serviceable Stores : 3170.06 Lakhs. b. Obsolete Stores

(Realizable Value @ 30% Approx). : 76.34 Lakhs.

2. Provision has been made for doubtful debts and advances to the extent of Rs.82.99 lakhs.

3. Provision for all liabilities acknowledged as debt, has been made in the Books of Accounts for the accounting year.

4. Motor Vehicle Compensation claims awarded on or before 31st of March 2016 and accepted by the Corporation up to the end of 15th April 2016 have been accounted for in the Books of Accounts.

5. Claims of the following nature which are in dispute / pending in courts or with appellate authorities as on 31st March 2016 are treated as contingent liability.

Sl.No. Nature of the claim No. of cases

pending Amount

( Rs. in Crores)

a Motor accident compensation Claims 3802 460.29

b Departmental Enquiry/Gratuity claims

pending before Appellate Authority 432 8.08

c Property tax of KBS for the period from

1989-90 to 98-99 - 0.34

d Penalty on M.V.Tax during the year

1996-97 to 2005-06 16.83

e Income Tax liability as per the Asst. Order

for the A.Y. 2009-10 - 77.31

f Income Tax liability as per the Asst. Order

for the A.Y. 2010-11 - 80.77

g Income Tax liability as per the Asst. Order

for the A.Y. 2011-12 - 89.48

h Income Tax liability as per the Asst. Order

for the A.Y. 2012-13 - 17.60


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i Income Tax liability as per the Asst. Order

for the A.Y. 2013-14 4.16

j Service Tax liability as per the appeal cases

at various divisions. - 5.45

6. 3576 Buses worth Rs. 622.53 Crores were offered as security towards availment of Term Loan from

various commercial Banks. The Corporation has availed a loan of Rs. 16.00 Crores from KUIDFC

under Mega City Scheme being 50% of the project cost for construction of Bus Station at Peenya.

7. The Corporation is filing income tax returns every year and being assessed by the Additional Director of

Income tax ,Exemption Circle- 3(1) , Bangalore in the status of a ‘Charitable institution’. Consequent

to the Amendment made in the Finance Act, 2008 effective from 1.4.2008 to the term charitable

Institution , the Director of Income tax (Exemptions), Exemption circle has cancelled the registration

granted to the corporation as a Charitable institution vide order No.DIT

(E)/KSRTC/AAACV6497R/ITO(E-1)/2011-12 Dt.21-11-2011. Aggrieved by this order, the Corporation

has filed an appeal before Hon. ITAT requesting to restore the registration status as ‘Charitable Trust’

granted u/s 12A of the IT Act. This case was disposed of by the ITAT during the 2014-15, in favour of

the Corporation and set aside the orders of the DIT(E) cancelling the Registration as a ‘Charitable

Trust’ vide its order NO: ITANo.74/Bang/2012 dated 20-02-2015. The Department of Income Tax has

filed an appeal before the High Court of Karnataka against the orders Of Hon. ITAT, the case was

disposed of by the Hon. High Court of Karnataka in favour of the Corporation vide Order No. ITA No.

302 of 2015 dated 12-02-2016.

8. In the meanwhile, based on the cancellation of Registration as ‘Charitable Trust’, the Additional Director

of Income tax (Exemptions) Trust circle proceeded to assess the Corporation as an AOP (Govt.

Company) for the Asst. year 2009-10 and has passed the assessment order causing a Tax Demand of

Rs.77.31 Crores. Aggrieved by this order, an appeal was filed before the Hon. ITAT Bangalore,

requesting to set aside the Assessment Order, the case is pending before the Hon. ITAT for

adjudication. Further, scrutiny Assessments were also taken up by the Income Tax Department in

respect of the Assessment years 2010-11,2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14 in the status of a

Government Company and assessment orders have also been passed and a tax demand of

Rs.192.01 Crores has been raised. Appeals have been filed before the Commissioner of Income Tax

(appeals) in the matter which are under progress.

9. The collection and remittance of Service Tax as per the provisions of the Service Tax Act is being

complied with, at the Unit level and the Service Tax Returns are filed periodically.

10. The Collection of VAT and remittance thereof as per the Provisions of the Karnataka Value Added Tax

Act is being done at the Unit level and the required VAT returns are being filed periodically.


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11. A provision to the extent of Rs. 129.71 Crs. has been made in the Books of Accounts of the

Corporation to comply with the liability accruing due to gratuity payable in respect of current employees

of the Corporation as per the requirement for the Indian Accounting Standard 15. Further, an amount

of Rs.38.05 crores is held as share of KSRTC in the “KSRTC Employees Gratuity Fund Trust” as on

31-03-2016.

12. As per the Accounting Policy No. 6, Employer Contribution to PF is made at the rate of 12% for the

year, as there was no cash loss during the previous year.

13. As on 31.03.16, both the Regional workshops Bangalore / Hassan were holding 145 scrap vehicles.

These vehicles have already been removed from the assets of the Corporation. Hence, the value of

assets are shown in the balance sheet is exclusive of these assets. The approximate realizable value

of these scrap buses would be around Rs. 217.50 lakhs.

14.

a. Materials received in the units to the extent of Rs. 69.25 lakhs are not taken on charge as

the inspection formalities were not Completed as on 31.03.16. Hence the value of

inventories held in the books of Accounts as on 31.03.16 is exclusive of these Materials.

b. Capital liability on account of Civil Contracts pertaining to on going Works, for which work orders

issued but are still in Progress, is to the extent of Rs.67.90 Crores.

c. Capital liability to the extent of Rs. 152.10 Crs. towards Procurement of bus chassis/body

building/PMEs for which Purchase order/work orders issued during the year but yet to be

received/completed.

15. The Corporation had purchased 9 acres of land belonging to M/s MCTC Ltd., at a cost of Rs.10.00 Crs.

Out of the 9 acres of land, 2 acres and 20 guntas only has been registered in favour of the Corporation

during 2003. The remaining land is yet to be registered in favour of the Corporation. Further, the State

Government has exempted the Corporation from payment of Registration fees (Rs.22.65 lakhs). The

said liability towards Registration fee has not been incorporated in the books of Accounts of the

Corporation.

16. The Corporation had entered into annual maintenance contract with M/s ISUZU Ltd. for maintenance of

Swaraj Mazda mini buses in the year 2003-04 and the same was discontinued w.e.f. 10-08-2007.

Dispute arised in respect of recovery of penalty imposed on the firm and claim of pending bills towards

AMC charges submitted by the Company. Joint reconciliation of disputed amount is under progress.

17. The crew is eligible for incentive @ 2% on revenue collections on completion of their duties. Since the

incentive payment is linked with the attendance of the Driver/Conductors, provision towards incentive

on the night out collection has not been made in the accounts of 2015-16. The estimated expenditure

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18. The Corporation is providing drinking water, blankets etc., to the passengers of premium segment

services like Volvo, Mercedes Benz etc. The cost of these passenger amenities amounts to the extent

of Rs.499.46 lakhs. The same has been debited to passenger amenity fund as the expenditure is

incurred for the welfare of passengers.

19. No dues have remained unpaid as on 31-03-2016 in respect of the Micro, Small and Medium

Enterprises of State.

20. Projects Under JnNURM -I:

The Corporation has taken up two projects under the JnNURM -I scheme of Central Government at

Mysore city. The details of which are as follows:

a. Rolling stock:

The corporation has inducted 150 Buses at Mysore City by the end of Feb.2010 at the total cost of

Rs.4,781.74 lakhs. As against which Rs. 4,329.21 lakhs has been charged to the grants received in

this behalf.

b. Infrastructure Development:

The details of assets capitalized and charged off to the Fund/Grants received under Project -

JnNURM – Infrastructure development, as at the end of the year is as detailed below:

Value of Asset Charged off to Grant Account

Values of KSRTC Share of

Asset

Value of Asset Charged off to Grant Account

Value of KSRTC Share

of Asset

1 Upgradation of City Bus Statation at Mysore City - - 1,080.05 423.71

2 IMTC at Sathagalli Depot - 29.02 2,742.85 1,301.62

3 Upgradation of Mofussil Bus Station at Mysore - 22.12 1,678.67 1,530.39

4 IMTC at R.S. Naidu Nagar 2.78 491.33 473.27

5 IMTC at Kuvempu Nagar 1.62 1,359.24 511.72

6 IMTC at Ilawala - 422.39 96.93

7 PTAC Chamundi Hills - 131.16 2.04

Total - 55.54 7,905.69 4,339.68

Amount Rs. in Lakhs)

Sl.No Particulars

Capitalization during the year 2015-16

Total Value of Assets Capitalized as on

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21. JnNURM Project – Phase –II:

During the year 2014-15 the Corporation has received financial assistance from Government of India under “New Bus Funding scheme for Procurement of Buses/ancillary infrastructure” under JnNURM - II. Under this project, Central Government is funding for procurement of Buses and development of ancillary infrastructure for urban Transport.

Due to the change in the scheme, Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD), Government of India, has intimated that JNNURM-II scheme has been re-designated as Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation “AMRUT” scheme and further the Central Assistance (CA) was limited to 50% of the approved cost as against the 80% of approved or the actual cost whichever is less. In this regard, a proposal was forwarded to State Government to accord approval for additional grant in respect of reduction in the share of Central Government. Considering the proposal, the State Cabinet vide order No:SARIE 07:SASAMBE: 2016 dated 08.03.2016 has sanctioned additional grant of Rs.44.41 Crores and the total No. of buses under the project is restricted to 354 buses.

Accordingly, City wise details of the revised Project Cost under -AMRUT are as under:

No. of Buses

Buses Depots Total

1 Mysore 75 29.08 6.00 35.08 2 Tumkur 30 11.63 5.44 17.07 3 Hassan 25 9.67 5.44 15.11 4 Mandya 30 8.34 6.00 14.34 5 Ramanagara 20 5.56 5.90 11.46 6 KGF + Kolar 26 10.08 11.54 21.62 7 Davanagere 35 13.57 6.00 19.57 8 Bhadravathi 15 5.82 5.97 11.79 9 Shimoga 25 9.69 4.32 14.01

10 Chitradurga 15 5.82 5.97 11.79

11Mangalore + Udupi

58 21.06 12.00 33.06

Total 354 130.32 74.58 204.90

City wise details of Revised Project Cost under Project JnNURM -II/AMRUT

( Amount Rs. in Crores)

Sl.NO. Name of the City

Revised Project Cost


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Agency wise Total Revised project Cost and the First instalment received as on 31-03-2016 is as

follows:

Further as per the guidelines issued by Government of India for funding for procurement of buses, a

subsidiary Corporation in the name of ‘Karnataka Urban Road Transport Corporation – a

subsidiary of KSRTC’ came into existence wef 20.12.2013 as per the circular No: 1512 dated

08-03-2014. Further, the Rules and regulation for governing the administration of the subsidiary

Corporation is yet to be approved by the Government of Karnataka and hence, preliminary activities

are being carried out by KSRTC as per the instructions issued vide Circular No.1526/dated

04-08-2014. The work under the project are under progress and the total Expenditure incurred as on

31-03-2016 has been accounted under CWIP as detailed below:

ParticularsNo. of Buses/Depots

GOI STATE KSRTC Total GOI STATE Total

Buses 354 64.18 51.34 14.80 130.32 64.18 8.01 72.19

Infrastructure Development

13 37.29 29.83 7.46 74.58 29.77 3.73 33.50

101.47 81.17 22.26 204.90 93.95 11.74 105.69

( Amount Rs. in Crores)

Funding Agency wise Cost of the ProjectAmount Released as on

31-03-2016

Total

Sl.NO. Particulars Amount

(Rs. In Crores)

1 Buses 3.88

2 Infrastructure Development 61.70

Total 65.58

Statement showing the details of the Expenditure incurred under Project JnNURM/AMRUT AS ON

31-03-2016


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22. During the year 2015-16, the Corporation has received an amount of Rs.4069.43 Lakhs. (Rupees

Forty Crores Sixty Nine Lakhs forty three thousand only) from the Government of Karnataka towards

Infrastructure development projects taken up by the Corporation as detailed below:

23. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has released an amount of Rs. 5.16 Crores

as on 31-03-2016 as Central financial assistance, towards implementation of project VTMS - Global

Positioning System (GPS) enabled Vehicle Tracking and Monitoring System taken up by the

Corporation. The project is under progress.

24. The Ministry of Urban Development (MOUD) is working with Global Environment Facility (GEF) to

implement Sustainable Urban Transport Program (SUTP) to reduce GHG emissions in the urban

transport sector. Under this scheme the Corporation has implemented Innovative Environment

System (IES) as well as Intelligent Transport System (ITS) at Mysore City, covering 500 Buses, 105

Bus stops,6 Bus Terminals and 45 platforms, with the financial aid from multiple agencies like World

Bank (GEF Grant), Government of India (JnNURM) and Government of Karnataka. The project is

completed during the current financial year and operational effective from 1st Oct-2015.

25. As per the Orders of the Government of Karnataka, the Corporation has taken up infrastructure

development works such as construction of Driver Testing Tracks pertaining to the Government of

Sl.NO. Particulars of the Project Amount

1 Speical Development Programmee ( SDP) 1,500.00

2 Social Welfare Department under SCSP/TSP for development of Drvier Training Centre at Malavalli/Malur and Chikkamagalur

300.00

3 Under Basic Services for Urban Transport (BSUT) for construction of Bus station at Nanjangud and Chikkaballapur

500.00

4 From Directorate of Urban Land Transport for development of Infrastructure

1,169.43

5 From Road Saftey Fund Department of Transport - Installation of CC TV's

225.00

6 From Directorate of Urban Land Transport for Procurment of Buses

375.00

Total 4,069.43

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Karnataka Departments The details of the amount Received, Spent and Balance held as on

31-03-2016 is as follows:

a. Total Amount Received till 31-03-2016 : Rs. 83.36 Crores

b. Amount spent till 31-03-2016 : Rs. 78.72 Crores

c. Balance held as on 31-03-2016 : Rs. 4.64 Crores

The balance amount is kept under Deposit head of Account (A.H. 220402) in the Books of

Accounts of the Corporation.

26. The Corporation during the year 2015-16 has repaid the Term loan to the extent of Rs.111.87 Crores.

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Date: 23-08-2016 (D.DURUGAPPA) (RAJENDER KUMAR KATARIA) Bangalore CHIEF ACCOUNTS OFFICER CUM F.A. MANAGING DIRECTOR

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