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19/05/2025
Please provide the calendar dates of all meetings of the Commuter Advisory and Facilitation Committee CAFC since 01.01.2023.
Please provide the minutes of meetings MoM, or summary or outcome report for all meetings listed in the reply of point 1 above.
Please provide the head count and designation of transgender people employed by the BMTC in any job role whatsoever.
23/05/2025
1. & 2. From 01.01.2023 till now, the meeting of the Consumer Advisory Committee has not been organized at the head office level of the BMTC and there are no proceedings.
3. The matter of transgender staff is related to the administrative branch and the application seeking information under the Act, 2005 has been forwarded to the administrative department under Section 6(3).
19/06/2025 Administrative Department
3. No transgender persons have been appointed to any position in the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation.
20/06/2025
Please provide all dates of CAFC committee meetings since its inception.
Please provide the agenda and minutes of the meetings and outcomes of the meetings listed in the reply of point 1.
Please provide the full website url link where the reply information of point 1 and 2 is available publicly.
01/07/2025
The information requested is overwhelming. Due to the volume, please come to this office during office hours on 16.07.2025 to inspect the files and provide copies of the information under the Right to Information Act.
Due to the anticipated Kannada language documents, I didn't inspect the documents. Further, due to the lack of recent CAFC meetings, the information would be outdated anyway.
20/06/2025
Please provide any documents, proposals, consultations, expression of intent, ideas, or studies dated after 01.01.2022 regarding BMTC bus priority lane, its implementation or feasibility.
Please provide any documents, proposals, consultations, expression of intent, ideas, or studies dated after 01.01.2022 regarding popup lanes or painting exclusivity/ priority warnings on the road in front of BMTC bus stops.
Please provide any documents, proposals, consultations, expression of intent, ideas, or studies dated after 01.01.2022 regarding card-less and cashless ticket payments in BMTC buses. The intent was expressed by the BMTC MD Mr Ramachandran R in an interview with Elets News Network (ENN) on the date 20.07.2024 quoted
One of our major initiatives is the implementation of the National Common Mobility Card (NCMC). We envision moving beyond even the need for physical cards. Almost everyone carries a mobile phone, so we aim to facilitate mobile-based payments. We aim to eliminate the need for any physical cards, allowing people to walk in and out of transport systems seamlessly. Similar to how FASTag works at toll plazas, GPS- based ticketing systems automatically calculate fares based on where passengers board and alight from the bus, deducting the fare from their account without human intervention.
https://egov.eletsonline.com/2024/07/bmtcs-journey-towards-cashless-contactless-public-transport/
Please provide any documents, proposals, consultations, expression of intent, ideas, or studies dated after 01.01.2022 regarding increasing last mile connectivity in streets using partnerships or incentivisation schemes with private autos or e-rikshas etc.
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01/07/2025
Traffic police ???? 15.11.2019 The buses of the BMC are operated under Bus Priority Lane (BPL). Further, the BMTC has not issued any government-level orders regarding Bus Priority Lane (BPL).
No orders in this regard are available in this office.
The query has been forwarded to the Computer Department under Section 6(3) of the RTI Act 2005.
There is no proposal in the office about it.
The application submitted has been forwarded to the Computer Department under Section 6(3).
16/07/2025 Rejected by Systems Department
3. and 5. Reason for Rejection :- Section 8(1)(d). Remarks:-
16/07/2025 Appeal
Appeal for point 5: the applicant requested details of the namma bmtc app promotion and adoption scheme or advertisements. If any posters or banners or speaker announcements were made public already, they cannot be protected with RTI act sec 8.1.d. If any conductor incentive scheme was implemented, the entirety of the scheme document should not be protected by the PIO. Merely providing the start-end dates or outcome of such scheme etc., will not hurt the competitive position of BMTC. The larger public interest of the instant RTI is to find out the efforts BMTC has taken to ensure that the magnificent namma bmtc app gets used by the passengers to obtain correct stop, route and live information.
22/07/2025 Appeal reply
Requested To submit Application CSM, FAA, System Department, BMTC
20/06/2025
21/06/2025:
Concerns can be raised in Play Store comments or write mail to [supervisorsits aaattt mybmtc dddooottt com]. BMTC team will take necessary measure to rectify the incorrect route or bus stop.
Request can be made to traffic section of BMTC, Central office, Shantingara. After thorough survey, needful measures will be taken.
Source code is not publicly available.
22/06/2025 Appeal
3. Appeal for point 3, to clarify, it requests whether there exist any proposals to convert the apps into open-source mode. Please provide any proposals, documents, consultations etc. regarding making the source code of the Namma BMTC android or iOS app open (publicly available) and collectively improvable by volunteer developers. Thanks for the prompt response on the RTI.
Participants:
Paraphrasing of the conversation:
Me: A teenager tried in 2019 and you blocked his app by taking the APIs private, and asked him to be a bidder in the tender and take on the entire app responsibility.
AME: yes yes I remember this story. He had probably hacked our system. Because he was a kid, we only called him and his father to this office and did not take any legal action against him.
01/07/2025:
3. Enquiry was called on 01.07.2025 at 14.30Hrs in the chambers of First Appellate Authority. Both the Appellant and the defendent[sic] were present for the enquiry. PIO informed that, since it comes under the intellectual property, copyrights and commercial confidence, as per 8(1)(d) of the RTI 2005, the source code cannot be given. The First Appeallate[sic] Authority agreed for the same and the enquiry was disposed [of].
12/07/2025
11/08/2025 BMTC, Traffic Operation, Central Office
Month | Monthly Passengers |
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Jan-25 | 12,58,85,738 |
Feb-25 | 11,57,02,396 |
Mar-25 | 12,36,72,886 |
Apr-25 | 12,09,57,436 |
May-25 | 12,57,48,707 |
[Jun-25] | [12,63,80,985] |
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June-2025 | Daily Passengers |
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01-June | 33,08,198 |
02-June | 44,42,759 |
03-June | 44,53,965 |
04-June | 43,52,369 |
05-June | 44,32,658 |
06-June | 43,57,876 |
07-June | 35,29,984 |
08-June | 31,24,994 |
09-June | 43,47,176 |
10-June | 44,12,701 |
11-June | 44,58,162 |
12-June | 43,75,028 |
13-June | 43,75,992 |
14-June | 42,10,014 |
15-June | 32,46,810 |
16-June | 44,15,617 |
17-June | 45,04,558 |
18-June | 45,51,754 |
19-June | 44,29,166 |
20-June | 44,60,284 |
21-June | 43,48,787 |
22-June | 33,48,701 |
23-June | 44,87,743 |
24-June | 45,15,686 |
25-June | 45,20,969 |
26-June | 45,45,839 |
27-June | 45,92,516 |
28-June | 43,62,114 |
29-June | 33,96,007 |
30-June | 44,72,558 |
Total | 12,63,80,985 |
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Charts that I made:
01/07/2025
In reference to the Karnataka Civil Services (General Recruitment) (Amendment) Rules, 2021, No. DPAR 179 SRR 2020, please provide the total number of transgender employees ever employed and their ministry, in the Government of Karnataka since the implementation of the said amendment.
01/07/2025
The information regarding your request is not available in the Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms (Service Rules). You are requested to apply to the competent authority of the department for which you require information and obtain the information.
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Technically, it should've been transferred to the CMO PIO under RTI 6(1) but ok.