City bus fares to be hiked by 25% in Nagpur

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Nagpur : The State Transport Authority (STA) has allowed Nagpur Municipal Corporation’s transport department to hike city bus fares by 25% and it may be implemented anytime this month.

“The new fares will come into effect after the final approval of RTA,” NMC’s traffic manager (transport department) Sukir Sontakke told.

The NMC has already submitted the proposal to the Regional Transport Office which has forwarded it to Regional Transport Authority headed by district collector Ashwin Mudgal. “As soon as we get the nod, the existing bus fares in 25 different slabs will be revised,” Sontakke said.

The NMC had approached the STA after the RTA partly rejected its proposal to raise fares in October last year.

As the proposed fares for Aapli bus were much higher than the maximum rates prescribed for urban transport service by the state government, the RTA had asked the NMC to get clearance from the STA based in Mumbai.

Sources in the transport department said the STA gave its nod citing a new notification by the state’s home department issued on March 31, 2018. However, the RTO in Nagpur was not aware of the revised notification and they referred the NMC’s proposal to revise fare with the old notification.

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