Chandigarh gets 80 electric buses

Tribune News Service

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.