Free bus schemes help, but rural India pays more to travel
The share of bus expenditure out of total conveyance expenditure is 20.6 percent in rural India, as highlighted by Cledwyn Fernandes and Mohd Tahoor in The Hindu.
Cledwyn Fernandes is a research fellow at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER).
Mohd Tahoor was a research intern at ICRIER and is a MA in Economics student at Azim Premji University.