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Commuters suffer as 250 govt buses lie unused, around 50 go off roads after deluge
The Statesman Kolkata
|September 25, 2025
Around 45 to 50 buses, including the AC fleet, run by the West Bengal Transport Corporation (WBTC), went off the roads in different parts of the city, owing to incessant rainfall since Tuesday midnight.
The state government claimed that Kolkata recorded heaviest ever rainfalls since 1980 on Tuesday night. According to sources in the state transport department, more than 45 buses of WBTC went off the roads because of breakdown problems on waterlogged roads in the city and outskirts on Wednesday. “With breakdown problems of so many buses, it becomes difficult for us to operate maximum number government buses, particularly couple of days ahead of the Durga Puja festival. We need around 700 to 750 buses daily to keep public transport services normal to some extent,’ a senior official of the transport department said requesting anonymity.
This story is from the September 25, 2025 edition of The Statesman Kolkata.
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