{"id":533030,"date":"2022-10-31T11:52:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T06:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=533030"},"modified":"2022-10-31T11:52:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T06:22:10","slug":"bengaluru-amid-electric-vehicle-push-bmtc-floats-tender-for-840-diesel-buses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bengaluru-amid-electric-vehicle-push-bmtc-floats-tender-for-840-diesel-buses\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru: Amid electric vehicle push, BMTC floats tender for 840 diesel buses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: While the state government recently announced a plan to convert all 35,000 buses of four state-run bus corporations into electric by 2030, Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) on Friday floated a tender to purchase 840 BS-VI diesel buses.<\/p>\n<p>This despite diesel costs soaring and the utility facing severe shortage of drivers. A litre of diesel costs Rs 87.8 per litre in Bengaluru. The decision to purchase 840 BS-VI diesel buses, ahead of the assembly polls, has raised several eyebrows. BMTC managing director G Sathyavathi was unavailable for comments.<\/p>\n<p>Under the \u2018Grand Challenge\u2019 plan of Convergence Energy Services Ltd (CESL), a PSU under the Union power ministry, 1,500 buses were allocated to Bengaluru on a gross cost contract (lease model).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: While the state government recently announced a plan to convert all 35,000 buses of four state-run bus corporations into electric by 2030, Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) on Friday floated a tender to purchase 840 BS-VI diesel buses. This despite diesel costs soaring and the utility facing severe shortage of drivers. A litre of diesel costs Rs 87.8 per litre in Bengaluru. The decision to purchase 840 BS-VI diesel buses, ahead of the assembly polls, has raised several eyebrows. BMTC managing director G Sathyavathi was unavailable for comments. Under the \u2018Grand Challenge\u2019 plan of Convergence Energy Services Ltd (CESL), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533030","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}