India, Sept. 9 -- Students in Bengaluru's tech corridor are paying a steep price for the city's traffic mess, with thousands losing the equivalent of hundreds of classroom hours each year.

On the Varthur-Sarjapur Road stretch, where more than 30 private and several government schools are located, an estimated 35,000 to 40,000 children endure daily gridlock. Over 1,300 school buses ply this corridor, and each student spends an average of 180 minutes commuting every day, adding up to nearly 600 hours a year lost in traffic, Times of India reported.

A study by Inventure Academy, which tracked the GPS data of 61 of its buses as part of its campaign "Our Mobility, Our Voice", revealed that a quarter of students' lives is being spent on the r...