Shakti scheme: Karnataka government has launched the very ambitious and useful scheme which is known as the Shakti scheme. Shakti scheme AIIMS to promote gender equality and empower the women by providing free bus travel across the state of Karnataka.
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Shakti scheme is the result of one of the five major provisions made by the Congress party during the election period in their campaign and was prold out on 11th of June 2023. He will see the comprehensive detail about Shakti scheme its benefits challenges and other crucial information.
Overview of Shakti scheme
Shakti scheme provide free travel to women in all over Karnataka state in non premium government buses across Karnataka. These buses operated by the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation Kalyan Karnataka road corporation and Northwest Karnataka road transport corporation and Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation. This scheme has a great ambition of enhance mobility of women fearlessly and tension free. It will also reduce the expenses of women and promote their participation in the economic and social activity.
Key feature of Shakti scheme
As you know that it is mainly provide the free transportation services to women in all over Karnataka by multiple corporation of transport. So it is basically free travel services.
Shakti smart card you know all the women who are willing to travel in the buses will have to acquire Shakti smart card to avail the free travel benefit. So until the cards are he issued women can use a government photo ID with their residential address.
Inclusivity scheme is very inclusive in nature as all the women’s along with girl child and office going women are included in this scheme but also transgender are the part of this scheme full stop so all the transgender committee people can a well this service in Karnataka to travel all over the Karnataka by using Shakti smart card with them.
Exclusivity :As we know that scheme is only for the women and for non premium buses so multiple Corporation have tried their ways to explode air travel avoid gold classes buses and many luxurious versus and AC buses which not comes under this scheme.
Benefits of Shakti scheme
For the first benefit of scheme is economics saving so the women and specially those from the low income household can save a lot of money by saving daily travel expenses which can be redirected towards their other essential needs.
Increased mobilities we know that this is a free travel services this will increase the mobility of women for the various purposes such as in business field in marketing and in other Healthcare sector so it will be also useful in education and Employment sector.
Empowerment scheme will empower the women of Karnataka by reducing travel cost and it will make them two participate more actively in economic and social activities without wearing about the travel expenses.
Environmental impact as we know that use of public transport will reduce the number of private vehicles on the road this will reduce the number of carbon emission for vehicle and further it will lower the carbon emission and it will also lower the traffic congestion in the city and on the road throughout the Karnataka state.
Challenges
Overcrowding as we know that the if anything which is provided free of cost then people will rush for it if there is no need of it then people willingly rust for it so it will unnecessary generate the crowd over the buses and this will generate the extra burden on the government Run bus.
Infrastructure cost as we know that the two implement this scheme we will require a lot of versus for infrastructure building to robot the public transport infrastructure downloading sufficient buses and safe convenient bus stop.
Sustainability to ensure the long term supplementary of the scheme it require a lot of funding and sharp and effective way of management of traffic and buses.
Some important data
| Category | Details |
|---|---|
| Total Rides | 1,004,756,184 rides by women across Karnataka (June 11 – November 22, 2023) |
| Monthly Spending on Conveyance | Urban areas: Rs. 665; Rural areas: Rs. 380 |
| GST Collection | Rs. 153.48 crores for nine months due to savings from the Shakti scheme |
| Ticket Value | Rs. 4,380.37 crores (June 11, 2023 – March 31, 2024) |
| Number of Travelled Women Passengers | Increased daily number of women passengers in government buses through the Shakti scheme |
Private transportation impact
As we know that if travel will be free for most of the people then there will be very less chances to survive the private transportation because very few people go for the private transportation prayer they will have to pay some money where as in other cases they have not to pay single rupees if all women travel in a buses run by the scheme by multiple government transportation services.
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FAQs
What is the Shakti scheme?
Shakti scheme is nothing but the free travel initiative for women living in Karnataka to provide free bus travel in non premium government buses across the state.
Who can benefit from the Shakti scheme?
All the women living in Karnataka and they have Shakti smart card then they can avail the benefit of Shakti scheme for free travel across the Karnataka.