APSRTC achieves five nationallevel awards
The Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) bagged five nationallevel awards for 202223. The Association of State Road Transport Undertakings (ASRTU), the apex body of public transport undertakings under the Ministry of Roads Transport and Highways (MoRTH) presented the awards in recognition of the APSRTC’s performance in five different categories.
In a statement on Friday, the Corporation’s Chief Engineer (IT) V. Sudhakar said the categories include ‘Technology Adoption’ for providing customers with cashless and paperless ticket facility and enabling digital ticketing inside the bus and integrating it with tracking for all buses., ‘Fuel efficiency’ for achieving highest mileage in the category of organisations with 4,0007,500 rural operation buses, ‘Non Ticket Revenue’ for realising recordbreaking revenues in nonticket revenue streams by effectively leveraging the potential for cargo and parcel services using passenger buses, ‘Employee Welfare’ for providing insurance coverage of ₹1 crore in case of accidents and ₹5 lakh in case of natural death for all employees irrespective of cadre and rank and for developing and implementing the unique service delivery platform for all citizencentric services, the first of its kind in the country. He said another feather in the cap is that all the awards are for standing first in each category.
ViceChairman and Managing Director of APSRTC, Ch. Dwaraka Tirumala Rao, who received the awards along with a team of officials, at a function held in Delhi, attributed the achievement to the committed and disciplined efforts of the 50,000strong workforce of the APSRTC and the patronage of the 40lakh daily travellers on APSRTC buses.
Mr. Tirumala Rao expressed his appreciation for all the staff and officers for creating a model for the entire nation in the realm of public transport. He further added that these awards will give further impetus to the APSRTC to raise the bar in performance and provide better service to its customers.