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Leh, Dec 18: In wake of the approaching developments pertaining to the switch of transport operations from the State Highway Transport Company (SRTC) to Sindhu Infrastructure Growth Company (SIDCO), a gathering was chaired by Advisor Ladakh Umang Narula to debate the modalities for enhancing public transport operations within the Union Territory of Ladakh.
Commissioner Secretary Ajeet Sahu said that the present routes being operated by SRTC of erstwhile JK had been inside Ladakh and inter-state routes are the Leh-Manali, and Leh-Srinagar service routes. He additional apprised that extra 20 buses and 10 vehicles and 02 transport depots are being transferred to Ladakh by the SRTC as a part of the apportionment permitted by MHA.
Whereas discussing the proposition of the functioning of the general public transport operations in Ladakh, it was given to grasp that the Transport Division and Housing and City Growth Division of Ladakh shall proceed to behave as regulatory our bodies, whereas SIDCO shall be the implementing company for capabilities equivalent to planning, growth, operations, and implementation of transport infrastructure and different allied actions with the top motive to offer inexpensive and dignified public transport by guaranteeing monetary viability.
It was knowledgeable in the course of the assembly {that a} technical and monetary viability evaluation of the interior routes was undertaken by the Transport Division by Rail India Technical and Financial Service (RITES) Restricted for plying the present fleet of electrical buses.
On this regard, Advisor Narula was apprised of the surveyed non-urban routes for working e-buses, bearing in mind elements such because the gradient of the routes and battery consumption. Additional, potential city routes have been recognized on the premise of present gaps, the significance of the route, common occupancy, size of the route, and required situations for plying the e-buses together with identification of areas for organising charging stations.
Submit deliberations, Advisor Narula directed SIDCO to plan and function e-buses on vacationer circuits as per the pilot carried out by the Transport division whereas making a holistic expertise for vacationers by combining different companies. He additional pressured making operations energetic on longer routes internally in addition to to discover the feasibility on inter-state routes past the neighbouring states of Himachal and Jammu & Kashmir.