The Pioneer 03.01.2014
194 more JNNURM buses for three clusters soon
(JNNURM), Odisha will get 194 more new buses for three clusters of
cities like Cuttack, Baleswar and Bhadrak for improving city transport
system in these cluster cities.
The Union Government’s Urban Development Ministry in its Central
Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee meeting on Tuesday approved a total
of 194 buses for cluster cities of Jeypore-Koraput, Cuttack- Choudwar
and Baleswar-Bhadrak under the JNNURM, sources said.
Sources revealed while 40 buses have been approved for Jeypore-Koraput
cluster, Cuttack- Choudwar cluster will get 100 buses and
Baleswar-Bhadrak cluster has got an approval for 54 buses.
The Committee has approved a total of 1080 buses for 13 cluster cities in 13 States for the purpose.
As per the bus funding guidelines, first instalment of the Union
government’s share will be released to the state after submission of
information / documents within three months.
The State Government has to procure these buses as per the urban bus
specifications-II which has been prepared by the Ministry of Urban
Development recently. Projects relating to ancillary infrastructure
viz.depot, workshops, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) etc. for
urban transport in these cluster cities have also been sanctioned.
The objective behind sanctioning of these buses is to improve the city
transport system, to give Metro experience to public in these modern
ITS enabled buses and to attract the public to use public transport.