Thousands of regular travellers, including students, employees from border areas of Kerala to Dakshina Kannada district, particularly Mangalore face a lot of difficulties every day owing to lack of passenger train and inter-State bus services between Kerala and Karnataka.

Regular travellers from Uppala, Manjeshwara, Hosangadi, Kunjathur and other places are forced to travel in buses — private as well as government-run — till Talapady on the Kerala-Karnataka border. They have to alight at Talapady, and board a different bus — private or government-run — for their onward journey towards Mangalore and other parts of Dakshina Kannada.

This has led to chaos every morning and evening at Talapady hundreds of students jostle for space inside cramped buses. Students and others commuters end up paying 100 to 200 each day to travel between Kerala & Karnataka as Karnataka state government has not yet approved inter state bus services.