Deccan Chronicle 17.03.2010

CMBT gets new gizmos

Chennai, March 16: The Chennai mofussil bus terminus (CMBT) will soon look neater and cleaner as the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) has introduced two state-of-the-art machines imported from Italy at a cost of Rs 14 lakh to tidy up the station.

The machines will be operated from this week and cover most parts of the CMBT.

According to a senior CMDA official, more than two lakh people visit the terminus every day.

“Even though the terminus is well-maintained by the workers here, it will get dirtier with an increase in the number of commuters using the terminus. The machines were introduced to speed up work and keep the premises cleaner,” he noted.

He said there were already two machines, bought at a cost of Rs 2 lakh, but unlike the new machines, they are manually operated and strain the worker. He added that the machine bought from Eureka Forbes could clean 6,000 sq. ft a day with the batteries fully charged for over four hours.