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KSRTC | |
Native name | കെ.എസ്.ആർ.ടി.സി |
Formerly | Travancore State Transport Department (TSTD) (1938 - 1965) |
Company type | Public |
Founded |
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Founder | King Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma |
Headquarters | S-301, 3rd Floor, South Block, Government Secretariat, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, , India |
Areas served | Kerala Tamil Nadu Karnataka Mahe District of Puducherry |
Brands | KSRTC, KSRTC SWIFT, KURTC |
Services | Bus transport Courier service |
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Owner | Government of Kerala |
Subsidiaries | Kerala Urban Road Transport Corporation (KURTC) KSRTC SWIFT |
Website | keralartc |
Footnotes / references KSRTC |
Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC)[3][4] is a state-owned road transport corporation in the Indian state of Kerala. It is one of the country's oldest state-run public bus transport services.[5] The corporation is divided into three zones (South, Central and North), and its headquarters is in the state capital Thiruvananthapuram. Daily scheduled service has increased from 1,200,000 kilometres (750,000 mi) to 1,422,546 kilometres (883,929 mi),[6] using 6,241 buses on 6,389 routes.[7] The corporation transports an average of 3.145 million commuters per day.
The Kerala Urban Road Transport Corporation (KURTC) was formed under KRTC in 2015 to manage affairs related to urban transportation.[8] It was inaugurated on 12 April 2015 at Thevara.[9] On 9 November 2021, a legally independent company called KSRTC SWIFT was formed to operate the long-distance buses of the Kerala Road Transport Corporation for a period of 10 years with an aim overcome the financial crisis faced by the corporation.[10]
In June 2021, Kerala SRTC was awarded the acronym KSRTC by the Controller General of Patents Designs and Trade Marks, which is part of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India when Kerala filed a case against Karnataka SRTC in response to a legal notice by the Karnataka SRTC to stop using the acronym KSRTC.[11] [12]