Rides without tickets on MSRTC buses are proving to be a major revenue loss for the transport body. The private staffers appointed to keep the MSRTC buses running because of the strike are ferrying passengers without issuing tickets, officials have told this newspaper.

Action has escalated with MSRTC ticket checkers now being authorised to file FIRs and police cases against private staffers, involved in this irregularity. The MSRTC tumult and subsequent strike from October-end has been a feature during these pandemic-hit times. The strike has continued for 100 days.