In the first year, the ministry wants around 5,000 such buses to go on road to be increased to almost 30,000 in the second. "Currently, state transport corporations incur heavy losses because of bad management and high maintenance and operations cost. The ones which perform well as per our performance standards would be given electric buses," a top roads ministry official said. Currently, on an average, every transport corporation makes losses to the tune of `20 per km. It would speedily reduce imports and usage of fossil fuels and accelerate the reduction in pollution levels as well.

Source: Economic Times May 16, 2017 19:08 UTC