States to get 10000 Buses under JnNURM

2124 Buses Sanctioned in the First Meeting of CSMC

In a major step to improve Urban Transport in the country, the Government has started the second round of approvals for sanctioning buses to states under the Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM). The earlier round of buses sanctioned to the states took place way back in 2009.

Nearly 2124 number of buses were sanctioned for cities in three states in the first meeting of the Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee (CSMC), constituted for the purpose, of Ministry of Urban Development in New Delhi yesterday.

In the first meeting of the Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee (CSMC) held on 17 September 2013, the number of buses proposed to be sanctioned for Karnataka and Bhatinda stood at 2104 and 20 respectively.

The Secretary to Ministry of Urban Development, Dr. Sudhir Krishna had announced in August this year that 10,000 buses would be allocated to States under the JnNURM Programme of Urban renewal. Speaking at the meeting, the Secretary said that the current round of allocating buses has new features like sanctioning of bus depots, workshops, control centres, ITS system, etc. to make the project sustainable.

Out of the 10000 buses, around 2000 buses have been set aside for the North East and hilly areas. Tamil Nadu has requested for about 3000 city buses while the State of Andhra Pradesh has placed request for nearly 1200 city buses. Several more proposals from different states have also started reaching the ministry now.

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