India, Feb. 17 -- A week after 18-year-old HSC student Soham Kathare fell to his death from a packed local train between Mumbra and Kalwa stations on the morning of his Class XII board examination, the Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) and the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) to roll out bus services between Thane, Dombivli and Kalyan in a bid to ease crippling congestion at railway stations.

KDMC plans to begin the service with two 40-seater buses operating four peak-hour trips in each direction. TMC, meanwhile, is set to receive 303 electric buses under the Centre's PM E-Bus Seva Yojana, a portion of which will be deployed on the Thane-Dombivli route.

Kathare was travelling on the overcrowded Kalyan-CSMT corridor on Februa...