5 months ago
2
Following the occurrence of its archetypal double-decker service, the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) has launched a 2nd autobus for sightseeing, Royal View 2.0, astatine Munnar. According to officials, the caller autobus began work connected Friday. Devikulam MLA A. Raja inaugurated the work astatine the KSRTC Munnar depot, with KSRTC Managing Director P.S. Pramoj Shankar presiding implicit the event.
The motorboat follows a committedness made by the Transport Minister to allot an further double-decker autobus to Munnar owed to the precocious request for the existing service. On Wednesday, Minister K.B. Ganesh Kumar officially flagged disconnected the conveyance successful Thiruvananthapuram.
Rajeev N.R., the Idukki territory coordinator for KSRTC’s fund tourism cell, stated that the 2nd autobus volition besides run connected the Anayirankal way on the Munnar-Bodimettu agelong of the Kochi-Dhanushkodi National Highway.
Time slots
“The clip slots for the archetypal autobus are fixed astatine 8 a.m., 11.30 a.m., and 3 p.m. The 2nd autobus volition depart astatine 9 a.m., 12.30 a.m., and 4 a.m.,” Mr. Rajeev said. “The autobus provides a panoramic presumption of the Munnar elevation station. The caller autobus has 12 seats connected the little platform and 38 connected the precocious deck,” said Mr. Rajeev.
The KSRTC primitively launched the glass-panelled ‘Royal View’ double-decker tourer autobus successful Munnar successful February 2025. Designed to supply a 360-degree presumption of the beverage plantations and precocious ranges, the transparent autobus soon go a large attraction.
Officials said that the double-decker work earned ₹1 crore successful November alone, with full net precocious reaching ₹1.2 crore. “Munnar is presently witnessing a monolithic tourer rush. We anticipation the instauration of this 2nd autobus volition pull adjacent much visitors and further summation revenue,” said an official.
