Bengal to launch more electric, CNG buses to reduce air pollution

The West Bengal government is set to launch about 1,200 electric buses in Kolkata over another two years, of which 400 will be operational by January 2023, a senior transport official said.

“The office will present 1,180 buses to be run by the West Bengal Transport inside the Kolkata metropolitan area over the next two years,” the official told PTI.

Environmental activist Subhas Dutta welcomed the move and called it a ‘good start’. He said that even in spite of the fact that minuscule in scale given that around 10 to 12 lakh vehicles ply within the Kolkata metropolitan area, it may be a positive step.

“Let there be a begin for distant better; a much better; a higher; a stronger; an improved”>a distant better environment; the electric buses will certainly diminish carbon emanation,” he said.

At present, around 80 electric buses are working within the eastern city, which was obtained beneath the CAPEX (capital use) demonstration; the WBTC obtained the vehicles and has been working on these on its own. The WBTC official said that another 50 electric buses are being bought for Salt Lake and Unused Town zones connecting  Kolkata. Of these, 11 are as of now operational.