{"id":507621,"date":"2022-07-21T11:08:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T05:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=507621"},"modified":"2022-07-21T12:10:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T06:40:47","slug":"time-to-shift-to-electric-ksrtc-buses-to-save-fuel-bills-panel-tells-karnataka-cm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/time-to-shift-to-electric-ksrtc-buses-to-save-fuel-bills-panel-tells-karnataka-cm\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to shift to electric KSRTC buses to save fuel bills, panel tells Karnataka CM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With fuel prices skyrocketing, the panel, which has studied the financial situation of various Road Transport Corporations (RTCs) of Karnataka has recommended to the government to make a gradual shift to electric vehicles and reduce the number of diesel vehicles so as to reduce the cost by more than 50 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>In a report submitted by retired IAS officer M R Sreenivasa Murthy to Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai Tuesday, the panel has stated there is little scope for improving fuel efficiency with current technology, and that the increase in fuel costs during a period of six years (between 2013-14 and 2019-20) incurred an expense of Rs 321 crore, which amounts to 13 percent of the costs of the RTCs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With fuel prices skyrocketing, the panel, which has studied the financial situation of various Road Transport Corporations (RTCs) of Karnataka has recommended to the government to make a gradual shift to electric vehicles and reduce the number of diesel vehicles so as to reduce the cost by more than 50 per cent. In a report submitted by retired IAS officer M R Sreenivasa Murthy to Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai Tuesday, the panel has stated there is little scope for improving fuel efficiency with current technology, and that the increase in fuel costs during a period of six years (between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}