Vadodara: The busy schedule of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is delaying the project of revived bus services in the city.

According to sources the chief minister, who is supposed to inaugurate the new city bus service, "is preoccupied with on going Krushi Mahostav", Gujarat Foundation day celebrations and ensuing Assembly polls in the southern state of Karnataka and has no time to inaugurate the project.

The city Mayor Sunil Solanki too is very eager to start project before the expiry of his term next month.

The mayor, who had written a leter to Modi requesting him to inaugurate the project on May 14 or 15, has not recived any reply from the chief minister so far.

Sources in Vallabhipur Transportation Cooperative Society Limited (VTCSL) that has been awarded the contract of plying buses in the city, said they are waiting for green signal to go ahead with the project.

The VTCSL has planned to introduce a total of 100 buses on 143 routes of the city. To start with, it will introduce 25 buses, with a capacity to accomodate 32 passengers, on these routes.

Government owned Gujarat State Transport Corporation (GSTC) had stopped bus service in the city more than a decade ago after it suffered huge losses.
Source : PTI