Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Friday said that the Ministry has floated tenders for procuring buses under the PM-eBus Sewa scheme and the bidding process would be completed by the end of this month.
The PM-eBus Sewa scheme was launched on August 16, 2023 with the aim of augmenting bus operations by deploying 10,000 electric buses in cities, which do not have any bus service. An e-bus is any bus whose propulsion and accessory systems are powered exclusively by a zero-emissions electricity source.
The scheme would be implemented in two segments. While in 169 cities, 10,000 e-buses will be deployed using public-private partnership (PPP) model, in 181 other cities, infrastructure will be upgraded under the green urban mobility initiatives.
