Wait n wait n wait .................. ok waited for three years so lets see when this soon will come
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KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah said on Wednesday that under a federal government programme a fleet of 500 CNG buses would soon hit the roads of Karachi.
Chairing a meeting held here at the CM House to review transport facilities for the citizens, he said that the federal government decided to introduce a CNG bus service in 10 major cities of the country on a public-private partnership basis.
The CNG bus service programme, he said, would begin from Karachi where a fleet of 500 buses would soon be brought on the roads. These 500 CNG buses would be part of a project aimed at bringing 4,000 CNG buses in the country, which was endorsed by the federal cabinet in its meeting on Aug 16, 2008.
Besides Karachi, the cities where CNG buses would be operated under the nomenclature of “Shaheed Benazir Bhutto CNG Bus Service” are Lahore, Quetta, Peshawar, Faisalabad, Multan, Rawalpindi/Islamabad, Hyderabad, Gujranwala and Sukkur.
The director-general of the Karachi Mass Transit Cell, Malik Zaheer-ul-Islam, informed the meeting that the Planning Commission had allocated Rs5 billion for the project. He said the government had exempted CNG buses from a 15 per cent import duty. He said the total investment in the project would be Rs21 billion including a government subsidy of Rs2.5 billion.
The government has already received offers from seven companies to initiate the project with 226 buses which could be increased up to 294 buses.
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KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah said on Wednesday that under a federal government programme a fleet of 500 CNG buses would soon hit the roads of Karachi.
Chairing a meeting held here at the CM House to review transport facilities for the citizens, he said that the federal government decided to introduce a CNG bus service in 10 major cities of the country on a public-private partnership basis.
The CNG bus service programme, he said, would begin from Karachi where a fleet of 500 buses would soon be brought on the roads. These 500 CNG buses would be part of a project aimed at bringing 4,000 CNG buses in the country, which was endorsed by the federal cabinet in its meeting on Aug 16, 2008.
Besides Karachi, the cities where CNG buses would be operated under the nomenclature of “Shaheed Benazir Bhutto CNG Bus Service” are Lahore, Quetta, Peshawar, Faisalabad, Multan, Rawalpindi/Islamabad, Hyderabad, Gujranwala and Sukkur.
The director-general of the Karachi Mass Transit Cell, Malik Zaheer-ul-Islam, informed the meeting that the Planning Commission had allocated Rs5 billion for the project. He said the government had exempted CNG buses from a 15 per cent import duty. He said the total investment in the project would be Rs21 billion including a government subsidy of Rs2.5 billion.
The government has already received offers from seven companies to initiate the project with 226 buses which could be increased up to 294 buses.
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