Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has decided to make ‘Mo Bus’ service available to three more districts – Sambalpur, Jharsuguda and Ganjam.
“The area of operation of the Capital Region Urban Transport (CRUT) will be extended to the urban cluster areas covering Sambalpur-Jharsuguda-Belpahar and Berhampur-Gopalpur-Chhatrapur-Hinjilicut-Digapahandi for running Mo Bus
service in the districts of Sambalpur, Jharsuguda and Ganjam on Gross Cost Contract Model,” a notification issued by the Housing and Urban Development department said on Thursday.
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, it added.
At present, the CRUT is running Mo Bus in some urban clusters of Khurda, Cuttack, Puri and Sundargarh districts.