AMTS free bus travel will be available to all women travelling on Ahmedabad Municipal Transport Service buses on 11 November, the day of Bhai Dooj, under a special festival announcement by the city transport agency. The waiver is intended to support women travelling to meet brothers and relatives during the festival.
The announcement was reported by Gujarat Samachar – Ahmedabad, which attributed the decision to the chairperson of the AMTS committee. According to the report, women will be able to travel without paying fares on AMTS buses across the city on Bhai Dooj.
The decision extends a fare-free travel measure previously offered to women on Raksha Bandhan. The AMTS committee chairperson said the facility was being provided during festivals so that women could benefit from public transport while travelling for family visits and related activities.
The reported waiver has a direct bearing on the cost of short-distance urban mobility. For women who use buses to reach different parts of Ahmedabad, the measure can reduce the expense of festival travel, although the source does not specify whether any separate registration, ticketing process or identification requirement will apply.
The announcement follows the earlier Raksha Bandhan initiative, during which approximately 82,000 women reportedly used the free-travel facility. That figure provides the latest available indication of the scale of demand for a festival-specific fare waiver on Ahmedabad’s public bus network.
The AMTS chairperson described the Bhai Dooj initiative as the first time the service has introduced free travel for women on that festival. The announcement places the measure within a broader pattern of using public transport concessions during major festivals, when intra-city family travel typically increases.
The source report does not provide details on the estimated revenue impact for AMTS, the number of buses or routes covered, or how the agency will record passenger usage on 11 November. It also does not state whether the waiver applies throughout operating hours or whether any service conditions will be announced before the festival.
For passengers, the key date is 11 November, when women travelling on AMTS buses are expected to receive the fare-free benefit. Further operational instructions, if issued by AMTS, will determine how the concession is implemented at the point of boarding.
