By 2025, the federal government is planning to acquire 6,380 buses.
“We’ll obtain the primary batch of 100 buses by March finish or the primary week of April. DTC MD Shilpa Shinde had lately visited the Tata Motors plant in Karnataka to examine the buses which might be geared up with safety features like CCTV cameras, panic buttons. After the configuration and registration course of, they are going to possible be on the roads in April or Could,” stated an official aware about the event.
These low ground zero emission electrical buses might be inducted this 12 months in a phased method.
“All 1500 buses might be inducted into the transport division’s bus fleet by the tip of 2023 after which the entire variety of electrical buses in Delhi’s public transport fleet might be 1800. This would be the highest in any state inside the nation,” he stated.
The official stated that the addition of those buses may even present a shot within the arm within the struggle in opposition to air pollution.
The DTC can be making an attempt to acquire 1000 buses by September earlier than the G-20 Summit begins within the metropolis.
Final month, in January, throughout the flag-off of electrical buses, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had stated that by finish of 2025, 80 per cent of Delhi’s complete bus fleet might be electrical.
Sharing a roadmap for procurement of electrical buses, he had stated the federal government might be shopping for 1,500 such autos in 2023 and by 2025, 6,380 electrical buses might be purchased.
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