The Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has conferred a special award on Odisha’s Capital Region Urban Transport (or CRUT) for its Bhubaneswar City Bus Modernisation Project, popularly known as “Mo Bus (My Bus)” service.
The award citation, handed during the 12th Urban Mobility India Conference-cum-Expo 2019 in Lucknow, reads: “The project is a boost to people’s confidence in the use of affordable intra city services offering the potential to relieve congestion and timely mobility to commuters”.
At present, Mo Bus averages over 80,000 passengers per day, up from just around 19,000 per day a year ago; in fact, it touched the 1 lakh riders mark in October. The bus service, which in 2018 evolved from the Bhubaneswar Puri Transport Services Ltd, is executing Odisha government’s long-term aim to reduce congestion by registered vehicles in Bhubaneswar. Odisha’s capital city already has 14 lakh registered vehicles even though its population is just around 10 lakh.
For a city like Odisha’s capital Bhubaneswar, which has more registered vehicles (14 lakh) than the total population (10 Lakh), it is absolutely essential to invest in smart urban mobility solutions. That's where Mo (or My) Bus comes into the picture. Its appeal is evident from the fact that over the past 12 months average daily ridership has jumped from just 19,000 to almost 80,000.
Read more of this success story in a report by Sampad Patnaik published in The Indian Express... (Link given below)
