NAGPUR: The Nagpur Municipal Corporation’s transport department has appointed three members from the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation to help it auction 228 scrapped buses which have remained idle for more than eight years.Retired adviser to MSRTC PA Joshi, MSRTC workshop manager Ulhas Vaidya and divisional manager (stock) DB Tembhurne will help the civic body decide the offset value of the spare parts of the scrapped buses. A 119 are parked at Teka Naka and 109 at Jaitala.“All the buses will be auctioned before Diwali,” said sub-committee chairman and transport panel’s vice-chairman Pravin Bhisikar.Bhisikar and the two other members of the committee, Shraddha Pathak and Nitin Sathawne, have put the rules in place. Bhisikar has directed the department to start the procedure to appoint an auctioneer. “The committee has set the target to decide the offset value by September 30,” he said.The buses were owned by ousted city bus operator Vansh Nimay Infraprojects and it had procured buses in 2007-09 for about Rs28 crore. Due to poor maintenance, the buses started developing problems and within a couple of years were left defunct.Before auctioning these buses, the NMC will seek no-objection certificates from VNIL. “Registrations of 168 buses have already been cancelled. The process of the remaining will begin soon, said Bhisikar.Separate sheets of spare parts of all the buses will be prepared. With a view to keep the procedure transparent, the final value of the spare parts offset will be calculated just two hours before the opening of the tenders for auctioning.

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