PRINCIPAL Secretary, Transport Rajendra Bhonwal said here on Thursday that the government would introduce 200 new airconditioned buses called ‘ Shatabdi’ in the state during the current financial year. The passengers would also be served snacks during the journey for which they would have to pay along with the fare of the bus. The state road transport corporation has already placed the order for the buses.
Talking to mediapersons here in the office of regional transport officer at Mawaiya, he informed that CNG buses would starting running in Lucknow and Kanpur in the next three months while at a later stage, such buses would be introduced in Agra and Varanasi.
There was no possibility, he made it clear, of introducing the CNG buses in Varanasi before 2007 as the Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) would not finish the work of laying its gas pipeline before that time.