In order to strengthen its own transport system Uttar Pradesh government will add 2,310 new buses to its fleet.
This decision was taken in a meeting of the Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation. The new buses would be purchased in two phases. While 810 buses would be purchased this fiscal, the remaining 1500 buses would be purchased in 2016-17.
The meeting also approved six per cent additional DA from January 2015 for the corporation employees beside approved one time payment to incapable drivers.
However, the Board relaxed the agreement with private buses allowing the transporters to ply their five year old buses. Earlier, the rule was that ony three year old busues could play on select roads.
It also approved construction of modern bus stations at Kanpur and Noida with the help of local Development Authorities. The board also decided to increase the agreement from two to five years for advertisements at bus stations to further its revenue.