A joint consultative meeting convened by bus operators’ associations in Kerala, held in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday (June 30, 2026), decided to convene a detailed meeting of bus operators, auto-taxi operators, and tourist bus operators on July 6. The meeting will take a call on holding a Statewide motor strike in the wake of the roll-out of the Priyadarshini free bus ride scheme for women and transgender people. According to T. Gopinathan of the All Kerala Bus Operators Organisation, the meeting unanimously decided to bring together auto-taxi and bus workers as part of efforts to raise the demands of private bus operators. The private bus operators are not opposed to the free travel scheme. However, they said the State government should address the losses incurred by private bus operators due to the implementation of the scheme.
Published – June 30, 2026 09:14 pm IST