Eicher buses looking at supplying to STU in Tamil Nadu

The company has sold around 3200 buses to various STUs, including 1,101 units to Gujarat

VE Commercial Vehicles (VECV), a joint venture between Volvo Group and Eicher Motors, is keen on supplying its buses to the State Transport Undertaking (STU).

While launching the Skyline Pro Series of light duty buses here, Shyam Maller, senior vice president, sales, marketing and after market, VECV, said the company would be taking part in the tender in order to bag some orders in the STU in Tamil Nadu also.

He said that the company has so far supplied over 3,200 buses to various STUs including a major order of 1101 units to the Gujarat government. The company has also supplied light duty buses to the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), he added.

It has earler said that it is set to add one big order of 560 buses from Bihar and another order of 65 buses from Indore.

The company today launched the Skyline Pro Series buses, with variants for school and staff in Tamil Nadu. The company is manufacturing these buses in its bus body plant Pithampur, in Madhya Pradesh. The company has made investment of Rs 250 crore for the bus facility. The company would be looking at bringing in the uniform Bus Body Code standards to its existing products.