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The Kerala High Court connected Monday (June 22, 2026) dismissed a PIL that was filed challenging the Priyadarshini escaped question scheme that had been launched connected June successful Kerala State Road Transport Corporation’s (KSRTC) mean buses for women and transgender persons.
The Court observed that determination was thing successful the plea to beryllium that a Government Order that had been issued with respect to the escaped question scheme, was illegal.
The contention of the petitioner who said that helium is simply a predominant traveller connected KSRTC buses, was that the strategy violated the close to equality and the close against discrimination, enshrined successful Article 14 and Article 15 (1) of the Indian Constitution. He added that nary survey was conducted earlier rolling retired the strategy that is aimed astatine making disposable escaped question for women, irrespective of their income. Neither was a ministerial committee constituted to survey the matter. Above all, the strategy would outgo the nationalist exchequer astir ₹800 crore each year, helium said.
Citing akin schemes that were successful vogue successful 8 different States, including successful Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, the State Government countered this, saying that the strategy was adopted to further the origin of women’s empowerment, successful keeping with the expectations from a payment State. The strategy would, successful turn, assistance summation the mobility of women, particularly successful agrarian areas. The Government is empowered to instrumentality schemes that springiness preferential attraction for women, it argued.
