BUSES' PURCHASE * India - Cities plump for Central scheme, take to CNG buses
While the urban development ministry laid down several specific conditions and technical criteria for the type of buses that cities would be allowed to buy under the scheme, it didn’t require the buses to be powered by CNG
New Delhi,India -The Wall Street Journal/Live Mint (USA), by Rahul Chandran and Samar Srivastava -4 June 2009: -- The opportunity to earn money by selling carbon credits, growing environmental awareness and the novelty value of buses fuelled by compressed natural gas (CNG) may have prompted some 14 cities to order hundreds of CNG vehicles, taking advantage of a one-time funding scheme offered by the Centre... The cities that have placed orders for CNG buses include Visakhapatnam, Delhi, Indore, Ujjain, Thane, Navi Mumbai, Pune, Pimpri Chinchwad, Agartala, Tripura, Agra, Kanpur and Lucknow, according to urban development secretary M. Ramachandran... (Photo by Ramesh Pathania / Mint - Green fleet: Low-floor CNG buses run by Delhi Transport Corporation)Labels: buses' purchase
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