The Chandigarh Transport Department plans to purchase 80 more electric buses to add to the existing fleet of 80 electric buses already running in the tricity this year.
Officials said that these buses will give a major boost to the plan of the UT Administration to replace the entire fleet of diesel buses of the Chandigarh Transport Undertaking (CTU), running on local or suburban routes, with electric ones by 2027-28.
A senior officer of the Chandigarh administration said that tenders would be floated and the process was likely to be completed by September this year.
