Last weekend I was on a trip to Hampi and had booked tickets to Hospet from Bangalore for the Rajahamsa bus departing at 11:30pm on 25th december.
The bus started on time and the journey was comfortable for around 30 minutes. Then some of us started feeling itchy, but we thought it would be due to mosquitoes and we did not bother. But when it increased, we inspected our seats and to our surprise found BED BUGS crawling on the seats. When we informed this to the conductor, he was as if he would not care and just took us to the driver. The driver just casually put the blame on the cleaning authorities and said that even though pesticides were used, the bed bugs could not be controlled.
When we discussed this with other passengers, we came to know that this was a common story on these routes and everyone were somewhat accustomed to BED BUGS.
Hampi being a World heritage center attracts a lot of tourists every year and we feel it is the responsibility of the KSRTC authorities to maintain hygienic conditions in the buses they provide (same to be done for all the buses).
Hope they are aware now...
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