Tamil Govt introduce mini bus service in Chennai

Chennai, October 23:  This is the first of its kind initiative, Tamil Nadu Government CM J Jayalalitha launched 50 ‘Mini bus’(small bus) services in Chennai to connecting  areas without transportation facilities to the near bus stands and railway stations. 

Such a feature, also called the ‘mini bus’ service, is already available in other parts of the Tamil Nadu. 

CM  J. Jayalalithaa flagged off the initiative at a service  here, besides launch 610 new buses for city roads, insisting her Government was faithful to delivering transport services at low costs allowing for that the sector plays a key role in economic growth

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J. Jayalalithaa also gaven pension benefits to 25 retired transport employees and endorsed Rs 257 crore of pension benefits for other retired department employees. 

The ADMK Goverment charged the previous DMK Government with leaving the transport sector ‘on the edge of collapse’ while demitting office in 2011 and said Jayalalitha Government had introduced a slew of  reorganization and revenue-generation process. 

These included replacing old buses with new ones and up gradating services, while the Transport Department had earned Rs 28.13 crore from advertisement revenues, she said.

The Government has set aside Rs 1026 crore to buy 6000 new buses and over 3000 of them had been already purchased and in use, she said. 

With the Central Goverment regularly hiking the price of diesel, Rs 500 crore had been to be paid to the Transport Department this year to meet its ‘financial burden’, though it had not been passed on to the passengers, she add. 

She said a second drinking water plant would be set up at Gummidipoondi in Tiruvallur District to draw water for Tamil Nadu Government’s Amma Mineral water scheme, where a litre of bottled water is sell for Rs 10 at bus stands for passengers.

Water scheme was launched last September of this year.