City commuters would get relief after 50 repaired low floor buses would start playing from December. City people using public transport would be benefited as the frequency and new routes would be increased.
With repairing of around 50 buses operated in BRTS corridor city people would get public transport system.
There are several routes which have high density of commuters dependent on public transport and would be benefitted after the buses would start plying over the new routes.
Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) would get 50 buses repaired and those low-floor buses would start to ply in the city around second week of December.
Earlier 60 damaged low floor buses were handed over to BMC by the operator Prasanna Purple Company who was the earlier operator and now the new operator has been assigned the job of getting 50 buses repaired. Currently there are 106 low-floor buses plying in the State Capital and which cover selected route and several routes remain uncovered under BRTS.
Maintenance of low-floor buses required huge resources in every aspect and proved to be a massive job for the BMC. Huge cost in incurred for the maintenance of these buses.
The CEO of Bhopal City link limited (BCll) Chandramauli Shukla said that the repair work definitely strengthen the public transport system and to further strengthen tenders would be floated for 102 mini buses which would be operates on ten routes and the process would complete by new year and would ply from January -2017.
The new companies would use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology for better monitoring, he added.