For the convenience of public and in order to provide better transport facilities to them, the district administration has decided to run small 35-seater buses on the city roads. Tenders for these buses would soon be invited. A decision to this effect was taken in a meeting of the AICTSl here on Saturday.
In the meeting which was attended by the District Collector Akash Tripathi, city Mayor Krishna Murari Moghel , Divisional Commissioner Sanjay Dube, IMC Commissioner Rakesh Singh, AICTSl CEP Sandenep Soni and IDA CEP Deepak Singh, it was informed that all 20 bus stops on BRTS corridor will have ATMs and vending machines.
As informed, tenders for installation of ATMs at higher rates have already been received. All the ATMs would be installed by the State Bank of India. Divisional Commissioner Sanjay Dube instructed officials to take necessary security measure and depute security guards at all the bus stops for the safety of ATMs. Besides, for the convenience of passengers vending machines would also be installed at BRTS bus stops.
As decided in the meeting, AICTSl would run Volvo buses from Indore to Ahmedabad and Shirdi. Names of operators who will run buses on these routes have also been decided and it is just a matter of days before these Volvo buses would start its operation from Indore to Ahmedabad and Shirdi, it was informed.
Decision was also taken to run small city buses in the newly inducted 29 panchayats into the city area. In this regard, the officials have asked the authority concerned to decide routes in these panchayats where the small city buses would be plied. In the meeting, officials also talked about the possibility of extending the BRTS routes in the city and run buses of other models on BRTS corridor.