41 AC buses to be added to Chandigarh fleet

Chandigarh, September 5

The Chandigarh Transport Undertaking (CTU) will soon get a fleet of 41 AC buses for long routes.

An official said the CTU had recently floated a tender for procurement of new 41 fully built-up HVAC diesel BS-VI buses. The allotment of the tender was under process, he added.

The cost of a bus would be nearly Rs 37 lakh and have seating capacity for 47 persons with adequate space for luggage, he said. The buses would also have LED TV for entertainment of the passengers, he added.

The buses would ply mostly on long routes in Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan, he said.

Meanwhile, the UT Administration had yesterday decided to resume interstate bus service from September 16.

The Administration had suspended the interstate bus operation on March 23 in view of the Covid-10 pandemic.

The Administration has also allowed the HVAC/AC buses to operate with Covid-19 guidelines issued by the government from time to time.

Buses have to maintain standard operating procedure (SoP) as a preventative measure to spread the pandemic of Covid-19. The CTU has a total strength is 514 buses, 361 buses run on local or suburban routes and 153 run on interstate routes covering Punjab, Haryana, Himachal, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir.

Before the lockdown, the CTU buses used to travel nearly 1.20 lakh km per day and approximately 2 lakh commuters used to commute daily in the CTU buses. — TNS