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All the four buses were parked elsewhere and not at the main depot next to Salem bus stand where new buses are usually kept. Among them four small buses.All four were owned by the Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC), Chennai, and plied on Chennai roads since 2016, say transport department records. Anbu said the vehicle ownership had been transferred to TNSTC, Salem. The next day, six drivers, working with TNSTC Salem, arrived in Chennai to drive the other three vehicles (TN 01 AN 1245, TN 01 AN 1311 and TN 01 AN 1379) to Salem.When TOI contacted TNSTC Salem authorities on January 13, they said there was no proposal to introduce small buses in Salem. CHENNAI: Amid reports that small bus services in Chennai are being cut down, four such vehicles from the city have been renovated and sent to Salem, the district chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami hails from.The CM on Wednesday flagged off government buses on new routes in and around Salem, according to an official release..