Bengaluru: Maintaining that the ‘Shakti’ Scheme, which facilitates free travel for women in State transport buses, is severely hurting their business, Private bus, Cab and Auto drivers have called for a Statewide transport bandh on July 27.
Announcing this at a press meet here yesterday, Private Bus Owners Association President S. Nataraj Sharma said that all private transport operators (bus, auto, cab etc.) will stop operations and services from midnight of July 26 to midnight of July 27 as part of transport bandh.






