Puducherry rolls out electric buses on 25 routes

The Puducherry Road Transport Corporation (PRTC) has introduced its archetypal fleet of air-conditioned and non-airconditioned electrical buses connected 25 routes.

With this, the PRTC aims to regenerate its aging fleet of diesel buses operating successful the metropolis with environment-friendly ones. This marks the archetypal clip that the PRTC has added air-conditioned buses to its metropolis fleet.

Similarly, the PRTC volition beryllium operating buses from the autobus terminus to large acquisition institutions successful Puducherry for the payment of students.

The buses (1E, 2E, 3EA, 3EB, 9E, 10EA, 10EB, 12EA, 12EB, 17EA, 17EB, 18E, 193, 20E, 7E, 8E, 13E, 11EA, and 11EB) volition beryllium deployed via Gorimedu to Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (Jipmer); via Muthialpet and Kottakuppam to Pondicherry University, Puducherry Technological University, Dr. Ambedkar Government Law College and Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences; via Lawspet to Tagore Government Arts College, Government Women’s Engineering College; and via Reddiyarpalayam and Moolakulam to Christ Engineering College.

The Corporation volition besides beryllium operating buses connected the pursuing routes wrong Puducherry and its suburbs:

Transport Commissioner A.S. Sivakumar said the buses had received bully patronage from the people. The cognition of these buses volition not lone curb contamination but would besides amended municipality mobility and fortify the nationalist transport web successful Puducherry, helium added.