Nagpur: Evey Trans Pvt Ltd, a company based in Hyderabad, has stated its inability to provide 40 e-buses to Nagpur Municipal Corporation on Thursday.
The company’s general manager, Sandeep Raizada, was submitted before the NMC transportation department’s Steering Committee which could only send four e-buses in February 2022.
However, the panel led by the Chairman and Commissioner Deepak Kumar Meenve directed the department to impose ₹ 16,800 well per day due to failure To comply with the agreement to provide bus e.
Toi has highlighted that the NMC gives an ultimatum to the company to provide 40 electric buses on November 15, or will start collecting 0.1% a fine per day with the amount of guarantee of performance.
The source said Meena expressed the simplicity of the company’s inability to maintain the date for e-bus delivery.
So far, NMC has extended the deadline for sending buses at least five times.
Every time, the company has failed to fulfill its promise and is now looking for more time to send only four e-buses in February 2022.
The Committee, however, expressed doubts about the company’s request for new deadlines as well as possible.
The source shows that the delay in the company in giving e-buses is inhibiting the Minister of Transportation Union Nitin Gadkari about NMC only operate the bus environmentally friendly, by replacing all diesel buses.
The source also said that accepting the e-bus before February was a necessity for NMC because it had to memo 150 standard buses, which are at the end of their lifetime.
The steering panel also directs the operational manager of the AAPLI bus service, DIMTS, to audit from the standard bus.
According to the transportation department official, the JNNURM bus is in poor condition.
In addition to the procurement of 40 e-buses with the help of RS18 Crore approved by the central government under the phase-II of fame (adoption faster and manufacturing hybrid and electricity vehicles), NMC will also get 15 electric buses from NSCDCL (Smart City).
The panel also directs both private companies that provide conductors to the Aapli bus fleet to increase their energy.
Against a strange request of 1,000-conductor, the company only provides 850 conductors.
Labor shortage affects city bus services on various routes.
Meena has given a two-week time to the company to increase labor.
The decision to the Steering Committee will now be reviewed by Commissioner of Radhakrishnan B.