The city government has decided to launch the "CNG Bus Project' on a public-private partnership basis for the introduction of an environment-friendly public transport system. Under the project, 2,500 more CNG buses would be brought to city over the next five years. City government sources said that in the first phase, 500 CNG buses would be brought to the city roads through private sector. The city government has invited expression of interest (EoI) to be submitted by the interested parties by May 8 with the office of the Karachi Mass Transit Cell.

A new public transport policy for the entire NCR region, including Delhi and UP, will soon come into operation.

The Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking has decided to increase the number of Chinese-made King Long buses.

With a clear aim to give a fillip to the Capital's public transport system before the Commonwealth Games, the government has given the largest allocation of funds to the transport sector.

Planning Commission recommends Rs 10,000 crore

Extending a green thumb to the city, Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has decided to buy 200 new buses by June-end that will run on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) and start observing a

The recent excise reduction on bus chassis could not have come at a more opportune time for the AMTS. Especially when AMTS has decided to introduce 200 new CNG buses by replacing an equal number of CNG mini buses that ply on city roads. The average cost of a bus works out to be Rs 18-19 lakh while its chassis alone costs around Rs 14.2 lakh. A four per cent drop in excise would mean the costs working out to be a drop of Rs 72,000-76,000 per bus. This would mean an excise reduction of Rs 1.52 crore for the 200 new buses. "The announcement came at the most appropriate time as AMTS was planning to replace 200 odd CNG mini buses. Almost 68 mini buses have already been asked to stop plying. The excise reduction would benefit the operators as they have to meet the capital costs. The total benefit works out to be Rs 1.52 crore for 200 buses,' says a senior AMC official.

Gurgaon: About 40 passengers had a narrow escape on Saturday evening when the CNG fuelled Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) bus in which they were travelling went up in flames near the Management Development Institute(MDI) in Gurgaon. Fire department officials said that initial investigations have shown that the CNG bus caught fire because of a leak in the gas cylinder. According to eyewitnesses, the bus, which plies on the Karol Bagh-Gurgaon route, caught fire around 6 pm, after it reached the MDI Chowk on Mehrauli Gurgaon road. No one was hurt as all the passengers had got down from the bus before the mishap took place.