The Uttar Pradesh government is planning to operate 700 electric buses in 14 major cities of the state in order to bring down pollution levels. Earlier, the electric buses were plying on roads across seven cities, but now the government intends to provide this service to seven more cities.
The Uttar Pradesh government has also issued strict instructions to prepare charging stations at all selected locations for the operation of electric buses by 30 April 2021.
The Urban Transport Directorate, after getting approval from the government, has initiated work on the project.
The work of providing 700 electric buses in 14 cities will be completed by the end of October 2021 and passengers will get the facility of electric buses from the month of November 2021.
The cities to get electric buses for the first time are Moradabad, Jhansi, Bareilly, Shahjahanpur, Ghaziabad, Gorakhpur and Aligarh. The cities that will get additional buses are Lucknow, Kanpur, Varanasi, Agra, Meerut, Mathura and Ghaziabad.
