Dozens of buses of the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation’s Hyderabad and Secunderabad region have aged so much that they are either approaching the scrapping threshold of being in service for 15 years or will soon reach this period in a year or two.
Data shows that around 218 buses in the Hyderabad region have been in service between the age bracket of 15 years and 17 years. The case is the same in the Secunderabad region. As many as 303 buses are in the same age bracket here. Nearly 900 buses from both regions will approach the scrapping threshold in a couple of years.
According to transport researchers and specialists, the scrapping threshold, as a rule of thumb, is when buses are 15 years old.
