1 week ago
1
With request for Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation’s (KSRTC) Sarige buses witnessing a crisp rise, peculiarly successful agrarian regions and connected inter-city routes aft the implementation of the State government’s Shakti scheme, the corp has floated a tender to procure 400 caller afloat built BS-VI diesel mofussil buses recently.
According to the officials, the corp plans to procure 400 afloat built BS-VI diesel mofussil buses. The estimated tender worth has been fixed astatine ₹160 crore, and the selected supplier volition person to implicit transportation wrong 4 months.
Senior KSRTC officials said that the further buses are being planned successful effect to the expanding rider load seen aft the motorboat of the Shakti scheme, which offers escaped autobus question for women successful mean and explicit services operated by State-run transport corporations.
“Passenger occupancy successful Sarige services has accrued importantly implicit the past 2 years. Rural and semi-urban routes are witnessing consistently precocious ridership, and determination is besides a request to fortify inter-city connectivity. The procurement of 400 further buses is portion of our fleet augmentation plan,” a elder KSRTC authoritative said.
The officials added that galore existing buses successful the fleet are ageing and necessitate replacement. “Apart from introducing buses connected high-demand routes, this procurement volition besides assistance signifier retired older vehicles that person crossed their operational life,” they added.
As portion of the method requirements, the KSRTC has specified that the buses should beryllium afloat built BS-VI diesel mofussil 1 complying with AIS-052 and AIS-153 standards. The buses volition besides beryllium equipped with Vehicle Location Tracking (VLT) devices and panic buttons integrated with the State monitoring system.
The corp has besides laid down strict warranty and substance ratio norms. The palmy bidder volition person to guarantee a minimum substance ratio people of 5.20 kmpl during the warranty period, failing which the KSRTC tin invoke betterment clauses for excess diesel consumption.
The authoritative noted that proceedings runs would beryllium conducted connected 10 buses earlier full-scale transportation begins. Following evaluation, the remaining buses volition beryllium supplied successful phases. Around 190 buses are expected to beryllium delivered by the 90th time and the remaining 200 buses by the 120th time from the contented of the acquisition order.
The officials said that the summation of caller Sarige buses is expected to amended work frequency, trim overcrowding and heighten connectivity for passengers babelike connected nationalist transport successful agrarian and interior regions.
