Kerala allows each MLA to fund up to three new KSRTC buses from the constituency Asset Development Fund
27 September 2026
The Kerala Finance Department has issued a government order giving special permission to use MLA constituency Asset Development Fund money of 2026-27 to buy new KSRTC buses.
Each MLA can fund a maximum of three buses.
The KSRTC Chairman and Managing Director was to give MLAs the cost statements by 30 September, and MLAs must send proposals to district collectors by 15 October.
District collectors grant administrative sanction within seven days of receiving a proposal.
KSRTC bears the whole cost of running the buses, including fuel, staff salaries and maintenance, and can redeploy them across services.
In plain words
KSRTC Kerala State Road Transport Corporation — The state-owned corporation that runs public buses in Kerala.
Asset Development Fund MLA Constituency Asset Development Fund — A yearly fund through which each MLA proposes works that create public assets in the constituency.