The Telangana State Road Transport Corporation today cancelled all its buses going to Andhra Pradesh.
The corporation said that it was cancelling 250 daily buses running between the two states till May 18, and that all the advance reservations for the same would also be cancelled.
As a result, the bus services from Hyderabad to the different places in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, including Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Kurnool, Srisailam and Bengaluru, have come to a halt.
Although the TSRTC authorities ran a limited number of bus services to AP till Wednesday, they decided to suspend the services from Thursday till May 18 after the AP government decided to impose a daily curfew from 12:00 pm to 6:00 am.
As part of this partial lockdown, the AP government has decided to
seal its borders with Telangana between 12 noon and 6:00 am every day in an attempt to curb the spread of Covid-19.
Vehicles will only be allowed into Andhra Pradesh between 6:00 am and 12:00 pm. However, ambulances, goods vehicles, doctors' vehicles, and persons travelling from Gannavaram Airport have been exempted from the curfew.
A GO issued by the Jagan regime reveals that this state of affairs will continue till May 18.
As part of these restrictions, the AP police have also imposed Section 144 at the Grikepadu border check-post near Kodad in Suryapet district, at the Pondugula board check-post near Wadapally, and at the Macherla check-post near Nagarjuna Sagar in Nalgonda district.