'Smart City' Bhubaneswar to build five additional bus depots

The city of Bhubaneswar in Odisha has already got the tag of 'Smart City' and, efforts have been initiated by the authorities to improve mobility of the people in the city. The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has drawn up plans to have five more bus depots in the city so that an additional 500 buses can be accommodated. These will ply on the city roads within next two years as part of the smart city initiative.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 5 June 2016.

The tentative plan is to have a five acre land for each of the proposed bus depot each of which will accommodate 100 buses. At present there is only one such depot in Pokhariput. Other depots are proposed to be set up at Pandra, Ghatikia, Nakhara, Patia and Patrapada.
According to the national benchmark recommendations, six buses for every 10,000 person. Since the population of the city has touched 10 lakh, it is necessary to have 600 buses to ensure smooth public transport system. The authorities had planned to create 100 more bus stops on public-private-partnership mode in the city and 98 bus stops are operational.


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