Chandigarh gets 80 electric buses

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Updated At : 01:01 PM Sep 26, 2020 IST

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Chandigarh, September 25

The Central Government today sanctioned a fleet of 80 electric buses for the city under the Phase II of the FAME India scheme.

This will give a major boost to the plan of the UT Administration to replace its entire fleet of buses of the Chandigarh Transport Undertaking (CTU) with electric buses.

The CTU has 514 buses — 361 buses run on local or suburban routes and 153 buses run on inter-state routes.

In a tweet, UT Administrator VP Singh Badnore expressed his gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Minister Prakash Javadekar for sanctioning a fleet of 80 electric buses.

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