The Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) on Thursday felicitated 750 of its 24,389 bus drivers for achieving the milestone of accident-free rides for 25 years. The drivers were awarded with Rs 25,000 and service honour medals for not reporting any accidents in 25 years, in view of heavy duty driving amid traffic conditions and long working hours. Of the 750, three senior most drivers—Shivsharnappa Choudhary, Ashok Palwe and Siddharth Jadhav—were felicitated at the MSRTC head office.

As per the list published by the MSRTC, the maximum number of 72 drivers with accident-free services are from Buldhana division, followed by Yavatmal (32), Amravati (43), Akola (39), Ahmednagar (23), Jalgaon (26), Dhule (8), Nashik (32), Solapur (56), Satara (39), Sangli (30), Kolhapur (31), Pune (41), Wardha (2), Chandrapur (11), Bhandara (16), Nagpur (32), Sindhudurg (12), Ratnagiri (20), Raigad (19), Palghar (13), Mumbai (9), Parbhani (1), Osmanabad (23), Latur (52), Jalna (15) and Aurangabad (28).