HYDERABAD: Over 30,000 passengers use this bus station where more than 650 buses stop. Yet, the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation’s bus station at Aram Ghar crossroads lack basic amenities like toilets, shelters and seating arrangements, causing untold hardships to thousands of passengers.
According to TSRTC officials, post-laying of inner Ring Road which connects areas like Mehdipatnam, Gachibowli, Kondapur, Kukatpally, LB Nagar, Uppal with Aram Ghar crossroads, most passengers going towards south of Hyderabad have stopped using MGBS station and instead come to Aram Ghar crossroads bus stop to board buses.
“About half of the seats in buses going towards Tirupati, Kurnool, Mahbubnagar, Raichur, Bangalore are filled at Aram Ghar itself,” an RTC controller deputed at the station said.
For such a huge number of buses and passengers using the station, there is just one official to guide passengers and shoo away private cab operators trying to attract passengers at the bus stop. Except setting up a make-shift, one-man controller room and a lone bus shelter, which cannot even accommodate ten persons, TSRTC has not provided any amenities at the station.
“Can’t the officials of road transport corporation build a toilet and provide a few chairs at the bus stop. Without a toilet and proper seating arrangement passengers especially senior citizens, women and children are suffering alot,” rued a passenger.
Though road transport corporation officials have been saying of constructing new bus station at Aram Ghar, nothing has been done so far.
When contacted, Purushotham Naik, executive director of TSRTC, said that construction of new bus station at Aram Ghar is on the anvil, adding that steps would be taken to set up basic facilities like toilets, drinking water, seating arrangement at the existing bus station.
No basic amenities
Aram Ghar bus station used by 30,000 commuters do not have toilets, shelters and chairs.
With laying of Inner Ring Road, Aram Ghar bus stop has become the main bus stop for about one-third of people heading towards south of Hyderabad.
