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Bengaluru’s lady BMTC Chief Shikha drives Volvo; inspires many

Bengaluru: Thousands of employees of Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) were charmed by Managing Director C. Shikha on Tuesday, after a video of her test-driving a Volvo bus went viral. Shikha had…

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Published January 16, 2020 · 2 min read
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Bengaluru: Thousands of employees of Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) were charmed by Managing Director C. Shikha on Tuesday, after a video of her test-driving a Volvo bus went viral. Shikha had served as the Deputy Commissioner of Mysuru for three-and-a-half-years and was transferred on Aug. 10, 2016.

Shikha is the first IAS officer in recent times to have inspected a bus by getting behind the wheels. A visibly confident Shikha, accompanied by senior officials of the Corporation, drove the vehicle on the test track at the Hoskote Training Centre on Saturday.

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