Electric buses not purchased, they are run on gross cost contract basis: Karnataka transport minister
The Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) has not purchased electric buses but is running them on a gross cost contract (GCC) basis, said Karnataka transportation minister B Sriramalu on Friday. He was responding to a question by Congress MLA Tanveer Sait who asked the number of electric buses inducted into BMTC and their maintenance cost.
“As a part of the Smart City project, 90 electric buses of 9 metre length have been inducted on a GCC basis since December 2021. The maintenance cost for the same is Rs 64.77 per km,” said Sriramalu.
He also added that under the central government’s Convergence Energy Services Limited (CESL) Fame II project, which sanctioned 300 electric buses of 12 metre length,
