‘Mo Bus’ Service to be Extended to Ganjam, Sambalpur & Jharsuguda Districts

Bhubaneswar: The area of operation of ‘Mo Bus’ service the Capital Region Urban Transport (CRUT) will be extended t three more districts of Odisha. Ganjam, Sambalpur, and Jharsuguda districts will benefit from the extension of the ‘Mo Bus’ service.

The state government has decided to run ‘Mo Bus’ service to connect the urban cluster areas covering Sambalpur-Jharsuguda-Belpahar and Berhampur-Gopalpur-Chhatrapur-Hinjilicut-Digapahandi. The buses will be run on Gross Cost Contract Model, said a notification issued by the Housing and Urban Development department today.

The Western Odisha Urban Transport Service Limited (WOUTSL) and the Ganjam Urban Transport Service Limited (GUTSL), constituted in 2013, to provide city bus service in Sambalpur-Bargarh-Jharsuguda and Berhampur-Chhatrapur-Gopalpur-Hinjilicut urban clusters shall be closed/dissolved by the process of voluntary winding up under Section 59 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy code 2016 on commencement of Mo Bus service by the CRUT in the above mentioned extended service areas, added the notification.

At present, the CRUT is providing Mo Bus service in some urban clusters in the Khurda, Cuttack, Puri, and Sundargarh districts of Odisha.