Four days after a hike in the diesel price, the Odisha Government on Tuesday increased fares for all categories of passenger buses as per the automatic fare adjustment mechanism.
As per a notification issued by the Commerce and Transport Department, the fares for ordinary and express buses have been hiked by 1 paisa per km, while fares for deluxe and AC deluxe category buses have been hiked by 2 paisa per km.
With this hike coming into effect, the fare for ordinary buses will now be 60 paisa per km as against 59 paise per km earlier while the fare for express buses will be 63 paisa from 62 paisa per km. After the hike in the fares, deluxe category buses will now charge 84 paise per km as against 82 paise earlier while AC deluxe buses will charge `1.05 instead of the current `1.03 paise per km, the notification added.
With the latest hike in bus fares, the State Government has increased the bus fares for the seventh time this year. Notably, the oil companies had hiked diesel price by `1.79 per litre on December 16.