Wheels within Wheels | The buses that drove Madras into Chennai, a cosmopolitan city

The Metropolitan Transport Corporation or MTC, as it is more commonly known, has gone through many changes in its decades-long existence. Despite the ups and downs, it has remained a constant fixture in the lives of many a resident, helping them get around the city with its ever-growing fleet, and becoming a model for the entire country for its implementation of social initiatives, such as ticket-free rides for students, senior citizens, persons with disabilities and, more recently, women