JNNURM joins fleet of KUTRC soon
Sources have added that the last batch of 117 of the 400 low floor buses procured with financial assistance of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) will join the fleet of the Kerala Urban Road Transport Corporation (KURTC) as early as possible.
It is stated that of the 117 air-conditioned low floor buses, 44 have reached the capital already and 16 are in the yard, with 117 buses joining the fleet after completing the registration formalities with the Motor Vehicles Department, the number of buses purchased under the JNNURM will go up to 720.
The KURTC will approach the government for exemption for the alterations which was made in the fabrication of the body to register the buses and the government has to issue orders for each bus as the MVD on its own cannot grant exemption for the alterations made.
Meanwhile the 283 buses, including 110 air-conditioned, that had joined the fleet since January 2015 had been used by the KURTC, the special purpose vehicle floated under the KSRTC, to extend the services to 12 districts, since 2009, as many as 320 low-floor buses are plying in the capital and Kochi.