Punjab Government has approved a major initiative to upgrade plant and machinery of Punjab Roadways and PUNBUS during the current financial year.
A spokesman of the Punjab Government said an amount of Rs4 crore have been set aside for up gradation of plant and machinery during the current financial year 2014-15 and remaining plant and machinery is proposed to be purchased in 2015-16 with another capital outlay of Rs4 crore. The present plant and machinery in workshops of Punjab Roadways and PUNBUS is quite old and is in urgent need of up gradation as new buses have been inducted in fleet of PUNBUS.
The spokesman added that 243 Bharat Stage III Buses have been introduced in PUNBUS in 2012-13 and 305 more buses are under induction in 2014-15. A proposal for up gradation of plant and machinery in workshops of PUNBUS and Punjab Roadways has been initiated and 18 depots of PUNBUS have been asked to submit list of plant and machinery required in their depots. This list of plant and machinery has been finalised by a committee of technical officers of the department.