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The Telangana State Road Transport Corporation connected Friday announced its measurement towards greenish mobility by retrofitting its ageing diesel fleet into electrical buses.
The State-run transport undertaking had called for tender for retrofitting aged diesel buses into electrical buses connected September 15, 2025. As a adjacent step, the corp volition entrust the conversion of 200 buses to Sai Green Mobility and different 40 buses to Kalyani Power Train Limited.
According to TGSRTC, a people of introducing 2,800 electrical buses wrong the Hyderabad Outer Ring Road limits by 2027 has been set. Officials stated that they expect an accrued reliance connected nationalist transport. This would pb to a simplification successful contamination levels.
As of now, determination are arsenic galore arsenic 325 electrical buses are operating from six depots crossed Hyderabad. Another different 175 buses slated for induction to the fleet this year. Charging infrastructure is being established successful 19 further depots, portion plans person been drawn up for 10 caller depots and 10 charging centres. The outgo of this infrastructure is estimated astatine astir ₹392 crore.
Officials besides pointed to a aviator task astatine Musheerabad arsenic grounds of the viability of retrofitting. In 2023, a diesel autobus from the Musheerabad depot was converted into an electrical autobus with backstage assemblage assistance and is present operating successfully wrong the Uppal depot limits.
TGSRTC Vice CHairman and Managing Director V. Nagi Reddy appealed to citizens to enactment what helium described arsenic a greenish travel for Hyderabad’s future. He called for for nationalist information successful reshaping the city’s transport system.
Senior TGSRTC executives and representatives of the retrofitting firms reviewed the programme’s advancement astatine a gathering held astatine Bus Bhavan.
