44-531: Chettikulangara is a gram panchayat in the Mavelikkara -(6) taluk of the Alappuzha district , state of Kerala , India . Chettikulangara is in "Kayamkulam" legislative assembly (108). It is an area of paddy and sesame fields, and tapioca cultivation. It has many higher secondary schools, a public health center, and a panchayat office. The panchayat is situated on the Mavelikkara - Kayamkulam road. The place
88-511: A callback to their childhood nostalgia, while some others enjoy frequently travelling in these buses. Even some incidents have been reported where the passengers request the authority to bring their favourite buses, which was taken to other depots from their existing depots or even requested to stop transferring the favorite bus to SWIFT for operation like Prestigious Changanassery Velankanni Super Express KSRTC buses have been featured in many Malayalam movies . The 2012 film Ordinary 's main plot
132-427: A dedicated RTO ( Regional Transport Officer ) to register its fleet, all its buses have bonnet numbers (for internal identification) adjacent to the depot mark at the front of the vehicle. RPE981 , a typical fleet number, can be split into three parts: RP , E and 981 . RP indicates the vehicle series, derived from the word transport ; each series contains 1,000 vehicles. During the 1960s, KSRTC began assigning
176-508: A fare-stage system to calculate fares. 24 Hour Passenger support system is available and the Contact number for the same is 0471 - 2463799 or 9447071021. Passengers can also submit the suggestions and complaints through the official face book page of KSRTC KSRTC buses have a wide fan following across the entire state of Kerala. Fondly called as Aanavandi, it has close to 100 dedicated fan pages on Instagram . Many people see KSRTC buses as
220-404: A period of 10 years. The corporation has a fleet of 6241 buses consisting Volvo , Scania , Ashok Leyland , Tata Motors , Eicher Motors and minibuses. The vehicles owned by KSRTC are registered under a dedicated RTO at Thiruvananthapuram with a registration series KL-15. The state has a target to transition the fleet of more than 6000 buses to electric buses by 2025. Although KSRTC has
264-706: A rich historical and cultural background. The place is home to one of the 108 Shiva temples of Kerala created by Lord Parashurama , the Kandiyoor Mahadeva Temple . Mavelikara Sree Krishna Swami Temple, Sree Krishna Swami Temple is managed and owned by the Travancore Devaswom board.The Chettikulangara Devi Temple , known for the Kumbha Bharani festival is located near the municipality.The only sarvam swayambhu shiva Temple in India
308-919: A testament to its link to that flourishing centre of Buddhist culture, Mavelikara is one of the rare places in Kerala where one can find the Statue of Buddha in Seated Position , which dates back to the 9th century AD. Mar Ivanios, the pioneer of the Reunion Movement is from this holy socio-cultural land. He is from the Medayil Panicker Family situated at the center of the Mavelikara Town. Notable places of worship include:- Kerala State Road Transport Corporation Kerala State Road Transport Corporation ( KSRTC )
352-399: Is a municipality in the Alappuzha district of Kerala , India . It is located 36 km (22.4 mi) south of the district headquarters in Alappuzha and about 95 km (59.0 mi) north of the state capital Thiruvananthapuram . As per the 2011 Indian census , Mavelikara has a population of 26,421 people, and a population density of 2,088/km (5,410/sq mi). Mavelikara was
396-636: Is a state-owned road transport corporation in the Indian state of Kerala . It is one of the country's oldest state-run public bus transport services. The corporation is divided into three zones (South, Central and North), and its headquarters is in the state capital Thiruvananthapuram . Daily scheduled service has increased from 1,500,000 kilometres (930,000 mi) to 1,700,000 kilometres (1,100,000 mi), using 5400 buses on 4500 routes. The corporation transports an average of 3.545 million commuters per day. The Kerala Urban Road Transport Corporation (KURTC)
440-750: Is also the diocesan cathedral of the Mavelikara Diocese in close proximity to Malankara Syrian Seminary in Thazhakara which hosts the Theobhavan Aramana and bishop's residence. The Mavelikara Diocese is currently headed by Vattamparambil Dr. Abraham Mar Epiphanios with about 80 parishes and a dozen chapels. As of 2011 Census , Mavelikara had a population of 26,421 with 12,070 males and 14,351 females. Mavelikara Municipality has an area of 12.65 km (4.88 sq mi) with 7,184 families residing in it. The average female sex ratio
484-692: Is now reserved for a scheduled caste candidate. Kodikunnil Suresh of the INC has represented the Mavelikara constituency since 2009. M.S Arunkumar from the CPI(M) is the representative of Mavelikara in the Kerala Legislative Assembly . The cultural capital of Alappuzha is Mavelikara. Mavelikara was once part of the principality of Onattukara and has been a centre of religious harmony, culture and arts for several centuries. As
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#1732783016243528-1236: Is operated to Tenkasi every day; 2 trips morning & evening via Kayamkulam , Kattanam . The Municipal Private bus stand is located at Mitchel Junction with buses to Chengannur , Pathanamthitta , Adoor , Pandalam , Thiruvalla , Haripad , Kayamkulam , Changanassery . Mavelikara railway station (Station Code:MVLK) is a mainline station in the Trivandrum Division of the Southern Railway Zone (India) , with connections to New Delhi , Mumbai , Chennai , Kolkata , Bangalore , Hyderabad , Ahmedabad , Pune , Mangalore , Bhopal , Guwahati , Nagpur and Jammu . Other nearby stations are Kayamkulam Junction railway station , Chengannur Railway Station , Haripad railway station and Kollam Junction railway station . The nearest airports are Trivandrum International Airport 115 km and Cochin International Airport (CIAL).127 km State highway SH 10 road start in mavelikara Local industries in and around Mavelikara include: Several small-scale industries are present in
572-413: Is revolving around some incidents happening in a KSRTC bus. Since then, film fraternity started associating KSRTC buses to the culture of Keralites. There is a famous quote from the movie Jacobinte Swargarajyam about KSRTC buses where the hero states that "one Malayali (Keralite) has to travel in a KSRTC bus to be qualified as a Malayali". The 2021 movie Yuvam is completely based on KSRTC. It shows
616-782: Is situated in Chunakkara , Mavelikara The town also has the famous St. Mary's Orthodox Cathedral founded in the year 943 AD and affiliated with the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church . The church is locally referred to as "Puthiyacavu Pally" and is known for holding the Mavelikara Padiyola in 1836 in which the Malankara Orthodox Church refused the anglicization attempts of the British and severed ties with them. The church
660-709: Is well connected to Kayamkulam, Mavelikkara, Haripad, and other nearby towns. The Chettikulangara Devi Temple is in Chettikulangara. The Kumbha Bharani festival is conducted during February or March in the temple. The important festivity associated with this utsavam is "Kettu-Kazhcha" which resembles the Chinese festival celebrated on the birthday of Buddha. Kuthiyottam is also another important festivity. Police Station Hospitals Pachayath wards Post Offices Mavelikkara Kottayam (44 km) Mavelikara ( IPA: [ma:ʋe:lik:aɾa] )
704-712: The Thiruvananthapuram City Circular is a bus service operated by KSRTC in Thiruvananthapuram . The service operates on circular routes covering all the major parts of the city. The buses ply every 15 minutes during peak hours and every 30 minutes during off-peak hours. The fare is INR 10 per trip and INR 30 for a whole day trip. Initially, the service was operated using old JNNURM Ashok Leyland and Tata low-floor buses. Later, electric PMI Regio and Eicher Skyline Pro E buses were also introduced. A short-lived air-conditioned service
748-729: The Malabar region in 1956. The Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) was established by the Kerala government on 15 March 1965 after the Road Transport Corporation Act, which came into force in 1950. The Transport Department became an autonomous corporation on 1 April 1965. At the time, there were 661 bus routes and 36 lorry routes. The corporation's fleet consisted of 901 buses, 51 lorries, and 29 other vehicles; thirty buses and eight lorries were new. Ten old buses, seven lorries, and one tractor-trailer were converted to other uses. The KLX registration series
792-653: The City tour service. Travancore State Transport Department superintendent E. G. Salter imported double-decker buses in 1937. KSRTC also used one of the original AEC Routemasters in Kochi on a route from Palarivattom to Willingdon Island from the 1960s to the late 1970s. A court, faced with non-payment by the KSRTC, ordered the seizure of the Kochi double-decker until the debt was paid. Limited Stop Super Fast Modeled after
836-592: The Industrial Estate (an initiative of SIDCO ) located at Kollakadavu. Mavelikara has its own constituency in the Lok Sabha . Until the 2002 Lok Sabha Delimitation took effect in 2008, the constituency consisted of Chengannur, Mavelikara, Kayamkulam, Pandalam, Thiruvalla and Kallupara. Since then, the assembly constituencies have comprised Changanassery, Kuttanad, Mavelikara (SC), Chengannur, Kunnathur (SC), Kottarakara and Pathanapuram. The constituency
880-426: The corporation would assume those routes, it created a shortage of service from Kochi to several northern districts. CPPR research and projects director Madhu Sivaraman conducted a study of KSRTC-private bus options. The Kerala Urban Road Transport Corporation (KURTC) was formed under KSRTC in 2015 to manage affairs related to urban transportation. It was inaugurated on 12 April 2015 at Thevara . On 2 June 2021,
924-497: The erstwhile capital of the feudal kingdom of Odanad , and is today a primary economic and cultural hub of the Onattukara region. The name Mavelikara is believed to be turned out from the words Maveli or Mahabali , the mythical king of Kerala, and Kara means land. This land is believed to be the place 'Mattom Mahadeva temple'where king Mahabali knelt before Vamana, offering his head for Vamana to keep his feet. Mavelikara
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#1732783016243968-459: The example) denotes the KSRTC workshop where the body work was done, and is absent on buses purchased fully built and outsourced bodywork. KSRTC owns five workshops: one central and four regional: The third part is the vehicle number of the series. In addition to this system, a TE was assigned to 144 buses built in Edappal from 1997 to 2003. Their depot vehicles are numbered in a D series, and
1012-443: The journey of three young advocates, who tries to save KSRTC from getting privatised due to debts which happened due the inlawful actions by some politicians. "The history of KSRTC in Kerala is intertwined with the lives of the people. It's not just a vehicle service. This public transport system has left its mark on our cultural life, including in cinema and literature and it cannot be erased so quickly"; said Antony Raju following
1056-560: The legal right to its trademarks acronym 'KSRTC' associated with the state-run transport corporation. Trade Marks registry certified that the emblem, the abbreviation KSRTC, logo and the name Aanavandi shall belong to Kerala Road Transport corporation. Kerala's claim was approved on 3 June 2021 by the Controller General of Patents Design and Trade Marks under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. The registration made Kerala RTC
1100-408: The lone custodian of the trademarks. On 21 June 2021, KSRTC launched its first LNG bus service from Thiruvananthapuram to Ernakulam for regular passengers. The first commercial LNG bus service had been launched exclusively for Petronet employees in Kochi earlier. On 9 November 2021, KSRTC-SWIFT was formed as an independent company to operate the long-distance buses of KSRTC efficiently for
1144-745: The oil tankers are numbered in a TT series. The corporation has several ambulances, numbered AV . Buses procured as part of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission are numbered JN . KSRTC Swift's buses are numbered in a KS series. KSRTC operates double-decker buses in Thiruvananthapuram and Ernakulam districts at ordinary fare. The Ashok Leyland Titan (BS III 123 kW) buses have bonnet numbers RN766 and RN765. Apart from these, KSRTC also operates two open top Switch EiV22 electric double decker buses in Thiruvananthapuram for
1188-504: The oldest state-operated public road transport services in India. The Travancore government, headed by King Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma , decided to establish the Travancore State Transport Department (TSTD) the predecessor of KSRTC, to improve the existing public-transport system. Initially, the department imported 60 Commer PNF3 chassis from England. Under the supervision of E.G Salter,
1232-432: The rest of the buses. Most of the private operators on the Thiruvananthapuram - Kanyakumari route had to close when the roads were nationalized, and many experienced drivers, conductors, and inspectors lost their jobs. TSTD recruited them, and Salter selected 60 people out of 81 applicants. Nearly one hundred applicants with bachelor's degrees were employed as inspectors and conductors. The state road-transport service
1276-622: The rights to use the acronym KSRTC, logo and the name 'AanaVandi' were fully given to Kerala State Road Transport Corporation according to the trademarks act 1999, after a seven-year battle with the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation , who issued a notice in 2014, stating that Kerala should stop using KSRTC. After the long drawn-out battle over intellectual property rights, the Kerala Road Transport Corporation has got
1320-408: The serial number T to its buses; R followed the first 1,000 buses, followed by A and so on until the P series. Repetitive letters and the letter O were exempted. Later, two-letter combinations were used to identify bus series. The 1,000th bus in each series is numbered with a multiple of 1,000, indicating the total number of buses introduced by the corporation. The second part ( E in
1364-784: The state. In 1995, the corporation established the Sree Chitra Thirunal College of Engineering in Pappanamcode at its central workshop. KSRTC has 28 station master (SM) offices in Ambalapuzha , Ayoor , Eenchakkal, Ernakulam Jetty, Ettumanoor , Iritty , Kadakkal, Kaliyakkavila, Kuthiyathode , Malayilkeezh , Mundakkayam , Nagarcoil , Ochira, Pattambi , Pothencode, Puthenkurishu, Tirur , Valanchery , Varkala , Vytila Hub , and staff-training colleges in Trivandrum, Ernakulam and Edappal. KSRTC uses
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1408-571: The successful Bypass Rider services, designed to offer faster travel by limiting number of stops. Unlike regular Super Fast buses, these buses will not enter all depots along their routes. A/C Premium Super Fast Introduced in 2024, this service is operated using 40 seat Tata Marcopolo A/C buses. Gajaraj Introduced in 2022, Gajaraj is KSRTC Swift's flagship service and is operated using eight Volvo 9400 B11R 15M AC sleeper buses. These buses are operated on long distance / interstate routes. Thiruvananthapuram City Circular Launched in 2021,
1452-482: The then Assistant Operating Superintendent of London Passenger Transport Board , the imported chassis were fitted with Perkins Lynx diesel engines. The bus bodies were built by department staff, and Travancore Dewan C. P. Ramaswami Iyer insisted on using local wood. The body shop (supervised by Salter) was originally in Chakai, and was later moved to Pappanamcode . Salter's experimental body design became standard on
1496-451: Was 1189 higher than the state average of 1084. 7.7% of the population was under 6 years of age. Mavelikara had an average literacy of 96.9% higher than the state average of 94%: male literacy was 97.8% and female literacy was 96.2%. Kerala State Road Transport Corporation has a sub depot at Mavelikara (Station Code: MVKA) which is one among the 46 sub depots in the state. The KSRTC sub depot at Mavelikara has an inter state bus service which
1540-525: Was a major centre of trade and commerce in ancient Kerala and the erstwhile capital of the rulers of Onattukara . As a result of the close association with the Travancore Royal Family , Mavelikara gained modern facilities well ahead of other places in the state. It is one of the oldest municipalities of the state. Even before India attained independence, Mavelikara had a super express transport service to Trivandrum . The town boasts about
1584-478: Was awarded the acronym KSRTC by the Controller General of Patents Designs and Trade Marks, which is part of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India when Kerala filed a case against Karnataka SRTC in response to a legal notice by the Karnataka SRTC to stop using the acronym KSRTC. The corporation's history dates back to years before the formation of Kerala state, which makes it one of
1628-856: Was formed to operate low-floor buses procured with financial assistance from the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). KSRTC SWIFT (K-SWIFT) is a company formed on 9 November 2021 by KSRTC with an aim to overcome the financial crisis faced by the corporation. K-SWIFT function independently within the KSRTC and operates the long-distance buses of the corporation. There were 5 KSRTC zones until 2018: Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Ernakulam, Thrissur and Kozhikode. But it has been reduced to three in 2018. The Thiruvananthapuram (south) zone, which includes three districts, has more buses. The north zone (which includes six districts) has 945 buses, most long-distance. KSRTC has 28 depots, 45 sub-depots, 19 operating centres, 28 stationmaster offices, five workshops and three staff-training colleges throughout
1672-411: Was formed under KRTC in 2015 to manage affairs related to urban transportation. It was inaugurated on 12 April 2015 at Thevara . On 9 November 2021, a legally independent company called KSRTC SWIFT was formed to operate the long-distance buses of the Kerala Road Transport Corporation for a period of 10 years with an aim overcome the financial crisis faced by the corporation. In June 2021, Kerala SRTC
1716-479: Was inaugurated on 20 February 1938 by Maharaja Sree Chithira Thirunal , who (with his family, Col. Goda Varma Raja , and other dignitaries) rode the first bus on the Main Road to Kowdiar Square ; Salter drove the bus. A fleet of 33 buses and a large crowd joined in the celebration. On 21 February 1938, the first bus operated from Thiruvananthapuram to Kanyakumari . The early buses had 23 leather seats. Entry
1760-477: Was launched in 2005 after the first Volvo buses. There were 10 buses: five Tata (built by Popular) and five Ashok Leyland, built by Irizar TVS. The Tata buses were built on LPO 1616/62 BS-II chassis with engine-driven (direct-drive) air-conditioning, and the AL chassis were 177 hp 12M BS-II (ALPSV 4/86) with air-conditioning driven by a slave engine. In November 2014, Kerala Urban Road Transport Corporation (KURTC)
1804-436: Was one-half chakram The next fare was one chakram, and first-class tickets were 50 percent more. Children under age three travelled free, and those between three and 14 paid half the fare. Luggage under 28 pounds (13 kg) was free; 28–56 pounds (13–25 kg) was four chakrams, and 56–112 pounds (25–51 kg) was six chakrams. The Motor Vehicle Act was passed in 1939. Bus service was extended to Kochi in 1949, and to
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1848-413: Was publicized as high-tech. Kumar commissioned Sabu Cyril to redesign the bus livery . Low-entry, air suspension buses were introduced in Thiruvananthapuram, and minibus service began. The changes attracted passengers, making the corporation profitable. The Kerala government issued a notification in 2012 suspending new permits for inter-district buses, exempting the KSRTC. Although it was assumed that
1892-462: Was reserved for the KSRTC. On 1 July 1989, KSRTC buses began registration at a dedicated RTO in Thiruvananthapuram with the KL-15 registration series. In 2001 K. B. Ganesh Kumar became transport minister, and his brief tenure brought beneficial changes to the corporation. KSRTC was the first state to introduce Volvo buses into its fleet. Body work was outsourced, and the buses' contemporary design
1936-629: Was through the rear, and the buses had a centre aisle. Ten first-class seats were in the front. Schedules, fares and stops were published, and a parcel service began in which goods could be delivered by designated agents. Conductors wore khaki with a white topi , and inspectors wore khaki. Conductors had machines to issue tickets. Later buses were manufactured by Dodge , Fargo , Bedford , and Chevrolet . The TSTD operated on three routes: Thiruvananthapuram - Nagercoil , Nagercoil - Kanyakumari , and Nagercoil - Colachal . Regular service began on 21 February 1938 with 39 buses. The minimum fare for one mile
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