{"id":555503,"date":"2023-02-14T13:20:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T07:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=555503"},"modified":"2023-02-14T13:20:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T07:50:59","slug":"chandigarh-to-get-80-new-electric-buses-by-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chandigarh-to-get-80-new-electric-buses-by-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Chandigarh to get 80 new electric buses by September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In line with UT adviser Dharam Pal\u2019s announcement on Republic Day, the UT transport department has started the process of procuring 80 more electric buses that will ply around the tricity and 60 buses for long routes.<\/p>\n<p>The Chandigarh Transport Undertaking (CTU) already has 80 electric buses in its fleet. The new buses are expected to arrive by September.<\/p>\n<p>UT transport director Pradhuman Singh said, \u201cThe tenders for the buses will be floated in April and the buses should arrive by September. The procurement of these buses will give a major boost to UT\u2019s plan to replace the entire fleet of CTU\u2019s diesel buses, running on local and sub-urban routes, with electric ones by 2027-28. Apart from saving diesel, they will also bring down carbon dioxide emission.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In line with UT adviser Dharam Pal\u2019s announcement on Republic Day, the UT transport department has started the process of procuring 80 more electric buses that will ply around the tricity and 60 buses for long routes. The Chandigarh Transport Undertaking (CTU) already has 80 electric buses in its fleet. The new buses are expected to arrive by September. UT transport director Pradhuman Singh said, \u201cThe tenders for the buses will be floated in April and the buses should arrive by September. The procurement of these buses will give a major boost to UT\u2019s plan to replace the entire fleet [&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":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555503","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=555503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}