Thursday, 5th March 2020:
In an effort to promote awareness as well to expand the safety net around the spread of the coronavirus,
AbhiBus.com is
offering to hand-deliver to their homes protection grade masks to all
those who book tickets on their platforms across the country. In
addition to this, AbhiBus will also provide hand sanitizers
in a partner bus services.
Bus
is preferred mode of travel for 63% travellers in India (according to
International Association
of Public Transport (UITP) and On average there are 20 million of
travellers that use buses to travel from one city to another and are
potentially vulnerable towards contracting the virus. However, based on
various medical advisories, the virus being non-airborne
makes it possible to avoid getting infected if adequate precautions are
taken by every individual. These include, but not limited to, wearing
of protection grade masks, constantly washing hands, use of hand
sanitizers as simple steps towards mitigating the
risk amongst others.
While announcing the initiative, Mr. Rohit Sharma, Chief Operating Officer - Abhibus.com
said, “Prevention is best case for protection from the spread of
this virus which is causing a global pandemonium. Life still needs to go
on and if adequate precautions are taken by every individual then the
spread of this virus can be avoided. In this
context, AbhiBus.com is offering to its customers the free masks so
that they become the inspiration for others to get theirs and wear the
protection. On our own, we are trying to make the awareness go viral
against the deadly virus.”
Further,
AbhiBus.com as part of its efforts to spread awareness is providing
free hand sanitizers
in the partner buses that it offers the tickets for, and is putting
up notices in buses on proper techniques to handle personal hygiene so
that they can be protected as well as orienting the bus operators and
owners towards.
About
AbhiBus:
Founded
in the year 2008, AbhiBus Services (India) Private Limited is India’s
leading Online Travel Aggregator. AbhiBus started with providing
end-to-end
software and other value-added solutions for the Private Bus Transport
industry as well as government RTCs and currently leads the table in
online bus ticketing by leveraging the latest technologies. The company
also provides technology solutions to more than
500 private bus operators in India and 5 state transport corporations.
The end-to-end software solutions include e-ticketing systems, fleet
management solutions, vehicle tracking systems, passenger information
systems, logistics management backed by a 24x7
customer support centre. Abhibus has over 4 million active users per
month and more than 6 million app downloaded by the user.
