The State Government on Saturday increased the bus fares under the automatic mechanism following the increase in the price of diesel.
The fare of the ordinary and express buses was hiked by one paisa per km and that of the deluxe and AC deluxe buses by two paise. With this, the fare of the ordinary buses has increased from 56 paise to 57 paise, express buses from 59 paise to 60 paise, deluxe buses from 76 paise to 78 paise and AC deluxe buses from 97 paise to 99 paise per km.
The Government had announced implementation of the automatic mechanism for revision of bus fares on June 4 last year as per the demand of the All Odisha Private Bus Owners’ Association.
Under this system, rise and fall in bus fares would be determined on the basis of rise and fall of fuel prices.