KARACHI:The Sindh government decided to purchase new buses for the People’s Bus Service (PBS) while the first route of its Electric edition was also finalised.
Sindh Minister of Information and Transport Sharjeel Inam Memon while chairing a meeting regarding PBS informed that the provincial government has approved the purchase of more buses for PBSe as there was a demand from citizens to run the service on different routes.
The minister directed to speed up the process of procurement of a new PBS fleet and also instructed to start the electric edition of Peoples Bus Service at the earliest.
Earlier the meeting deliberated upon procurement of new buses for PBS, opening new PBS routes in Karachi and routes of the Electric Bus Service.
The first route of the Electric People’s Bus Service was finalised in the meeting attended by Secretary Transport Abdul Haleem Sheikh, MD Sindh Mass Transit Authority Zubair Channa, Project Director NRTS Soheb Shafiq, Operations Manager Abdul Shakur Arain, ED Legal SMT Bashir Ahmed and others.