<p>]The GPS will help the corporation track movements of buses, especially during an emergency. <br /><br />Union Law Minister M Veerappa Moily told reporters here on Tuesday that Minister for Road Transport and Highways Kamal Nath informed him that the ministry had cleared the long-pending GPS installation project of KSRTC.<br /><br />KSRTC, which owns 7,000 vehicles with a passenger carrying capacity of 25 lakh per day, will set up a state-of-the-art control room at its Bangalore headquarters which will monitor the buses fitted with GPS. <br /><br />Sitting in the control room, a supervisor can monitor the movement of a bus on a computer screen and also the information pertaining to the speed and direction of the vehicle. The system will help the supervisor to give feedback and instructions to the bus driver. <br /><br />“Initially, the corporation plans to install the GPS in 500 buses. Later, it wants to extend it to other buses,” KSRTC Managing Director Gaurav Gupta told Deccan Herald. <br /><br />Meanwhile, Moily said Kamal Nath also said that his ministry proposes to lay 1,869 km of national highway in Karnataka at a cost of Rs 11,750 crore in two years.<br />Moily also met Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee who has promised to make provision for a 120-km new railway line between Yelahanka and Penugonda at a cost of Rs 212 crore in this year’s railway budget. <br /><br />Tourism Minister Kumari Selja has assured Moily that a ropeway between Nandi Hill and Muddenahalli, birth place of Sir M Visvesvarayya, will be built soon.</p>
<p>]The GPS will help the corporation track movements of buses, especially during an emergency. <br /><br />Union Law Minister M Veerappa Moily told reporters here on Tuesday that Minister for Road Transport and Highways Kamal Nath informed him that the ministry had cleared the long-pending GPS installation project of KSRTC.<br /><br />KSRTC, which owns 7,000 vehicles with a passenger carrying capacity of 25 lakh per day, will set up a state-of-the-art control room at its Bangalore headquarters which will monitor the buses fitted with GPS. <br /><br />Sitting in the control room, a supervisor can monitor the movement of a bus on a computer screen and also the information pertaining to the speed and direction of the vehicle. The system will help the supervisor to give feedback and instructions to the bus driver. <br /><br />“Initially, the corporation plans to install the GPS in 500 buses. Later, it wants to extend it to other buses,” KSRTC Managing Director Gaurav Gupta told Deccan Herald. <br /><br />Meanwhile, Moily said Kamal Nath also said that his ministry proposes to lay 1,869 km of national highway in Karnataka at a cost of Rs 11,750 crore in two years.<br />Moily also met Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee who has promised to make provision for a 120-km new railway line between Yelahanka and Penugonda at a cost of Rs 212 crore in this year’s railway budget. <br /><br />Tourism Minister Kumari Selja has assured Moily that a ropeway between Nandi Hill and Muddenahalli, birth place of Sir M Visvesvarayya, will be built soon.</p>