Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday flagged off four all-women JNNURM city buses here at the Master Canteen Square.
In the first phase, these buses would run on two routes, Nandankanan-Airport and KIIT Square-Balakati. All the buses are standard vehicles with seats for 60 people each. The buses would run in two shifts, 7 am to 11 am and 4 pm to 7 pm every day.
last week, the Bhubaneswar Puri Transport Service limited (BPTSl), which manages the city bus services in Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and Puri, had decided to run the only-women buses.
At present, two special buses for women are plying between Bhubaneswar and Cuttack which was launched by the State-run Odisha State Road Transport Corporation (OSRTC) on the International Women’s Day on March 8.BMC Mayor and BPTSl chairman AN Jena among many others were present at Monday’s flag-off occasion.