Bhubaneswar: Odisha government on Wednesday reduced the bus fares of different categories after dropping of the diesel price.
The State Transport Commissioner issued a notification in this regard saying that the bus fares have been reduced under the automatic fare revision mechanism after reduction of fuel price. According to the notification, the fare for ordinary and express buses has been reduced by 2 paise per km while the fare of deluxe and AC deluxe buses has been slashed by 4 paise per km.
With today’s reduction of the bus fare, passengers traveling in the ordinary buses will now have to pay 68 paise per km as against 70 paise per km earlier. Likewise, they will have to tender 71 paise instead of 73 paise per km for traveling in express buses.
The deluxe category buses will charge 97 paise per km as against 1.01 paise earlier while the AC Deluxe buses will charge Rs 1.19 instead of the current Rs 1.23 paise per km.
This is the second such reduction in bus fare by the state government in the last 15 days. The last it was slashed on November 28.
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