ORDER :- The Regional Transport Authority, Coimbatore, approved, on 10-3-1959, opening of an express route, Coimbatore to Palani with two buses. The Regional Transport Authority, Madurai in whose jurisdiction a portion of the route lies gave its concurrence to it. By Notification dated 14-5-1960, applications were invited for grant of two permits as express service. Forty two applications were received, which were published under S. 57(3) of the Motor Vehicles Act. When the applications were taken up for consideration on 27-10-1960, they were adjourned as, in the meantime, the State Transport Department had commenced an express service between Coimbatore and Nagarcoil with two buses on which the route Coimbatore to Palani entirely overlapped. The State Government added two more buses on this express route and approved a scheme of running a total of eight buses on the route Coimbatore to Nagarcoil. Another route Coimbatore to Udumalpet via Kinathukadavu and Pollachi which was opened subsequently, also overlapped substantially the route Coimbatore to Palani.

The trips of all the buses running on different sectors of the route Coimbatore to Palani have also since October 1960