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TIMELY HELP: Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi giving away appointment order on compassionate grounds, at a function in Chennai on Thursday. CHENNAI: An award scheme for drivers and conductors of State transport corporations for accident-free service was announced by Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi here on Thursday. The details will be announced in the budget proposals for the coming year, he said after flagging off 1,094 buses of transport corporations. This was the first time more than 1,000 buses were added to the corporations in one go , he said. Break-upOf these, 500 buses would join the fleet of the Metropolitan Transport Corporation, Chennai; 50 added to the State Express Transport Corporation; 100 to the Villupuram Transport Corporation; 142 to the Salem Transport Corporation. As many as 112 buses were given to the Coimbatore Transport Corporation; 120 to the Kumbakonam Transport Corporation and 70 to the Madurai Transport Corporation. Mr. Karunanidhi said in the 18 months since the DMK assumed office, 5,548 buses were added to the State Transport Corporations. In all, the seven corporations had 1.11 lakh employees, who maintained 18,707 buses operated on 8,903 routes. The income of the corporations had gone up significantly, Mr. Karunanidhi said. Under the last regime, it was Rs.10.74 crore a day, which now stood at Rs.11.35 crore. “You may think there is not much difference between 10 and 11. But, if the increase in collection per day is Rs.1 crore, it is Rs.365 crore for 365 days,” he explained. This was the reason the government gave the transport corporations Rs.200 crore for buying 1,000 buses. Local Administration Minister M.K. Stalin, who presided, said the AIADMK regime tried to privatise bus routes. But, Mr. Karunanidhi’s announcement that he would reverse any such decision after the DMK came to power forced it to reconsider its decision.
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