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Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin connected Friday (December 19, 2025) inaugurated the upgraded Poonamallee electrical autobus depot of the Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) and flagged disconnected 45 caller low-floor air-conditioned electrical buses and 80 caller low-floor electrical buses.
The upgraded electrical autobus depot installation was developed astatine a outgo of ₹43.53 crore, portion the 125 caller electrical buses were procured astatine a outgo of ₹214.50 crore, according to a property release.
Under the Chennai City Partnership – Sustainable Urban Services Programme (CCP–SUSP), executed with enactment from the World Bank and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the State authorities is taking steps to run 625 low-floor electrical buses successful Chennai done the MTC, with the purpose of reducing biology pollution.
These buses are being introduced successful a phased mode from 5 depots astatine a full task outgo of ₹697 crore. In the archetypal phase, Chief Minister M.K. Stalin had already flagged disconnected the cognition of 120 low-floor electrical buses successful June. In the 2nd phase, Mr. Udhayanidhi flagged disconnected the cognition of 135 specified buses successful August.
The caller acceptable of 125 buses launched connected Friday forms the 3rd phase. These buses volition beryllium operated from Poonamallee to destinations specified arsenic Anna Square, Broadway, Red Hills, T. Nagar, Kilambakkam Kalaignar Centenary Bus Terminus (KCBT), Tiruvallur, and Sunguvarchathram.
Minister for Transport S.S. Sivasankar, Minister for Minorities Welfare and Non-Resident Tamils Welfare S.M. Nasar, and elder authorities officials were among those present.
