Summary:
But now, BMTC has placed orders for 350-odd new diesel buses and they are expected next year. Then BMTC wanted to purchase 1,000 Bharat Stage IV-compliant diesel buses. The former Managing Director of BMTC had earlier told The New Indian Express that the operational costs for CNG buses were too high and hence requested that BMTC would continue to purchase diesel buses just as private operators. C Shikha, who took over as the managing director recently, told TNIE that along with electric buses, the tendering of 350-odd diesel buses had also been made. “According to the order, 2,558 diesel buses are allowed and we have requested for it within that quota itself..