Peoples Bus Service to start in Sukkur from Feb 17

• People’s Bus Service will be launched in Sukkur on Feb 17
• Pink Bus Service for women will be launched in Hyderabad from Feb 18
• The fleet of  the electric bus in Karachi will be increased

KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Information, Transport and Mass Transit Sharjeel Inam Memon on Monday announced the formal launch of the People’s Bus Service for the citizens of Sukkur on February 17 and the People’s Pink Bus Service for women in Hyderabad from February 18.

Addressing a news conference after a high-level meeting related to People’s Bus Service, he also announced to start more routes of People’s Pink Bus Service for women in Karachi from February 20.

The provincial minister said after Karachi, Hyderabad, and Larkana, the people of Sukkur will get the facility of modern and affordable bus service from February 17.

He said on February 20, two new routes of People’s Pink Bus Service were being started in Karachi and more buses will be added to the fleet of Route-1 of People’s Pink Bus Service.

He said pink bus service would ply on its Route-2 from Power Chowrangi North Karachi to Indus Hospital Korangi via Nagan Chowrangi, Shafiq Mor, Gulshan Chowrangi, Johar Mor, COD, Drigh Road, Shahrah-e-Faisal, Shah Faisal Colony, Singer Chowrangi, Korangi No. 5.

Similarly, pink buses will run on its Route No. 10 including Numaish Chowrangi, M.A. Jinnah Road, Zaibunisa Street, Metropole, Teen Talwar, Do Talwar, Abdullah Shah Ghazi, Dolmen Mall, McDonald’s and Clock Tower Sea View., He added the number of buses will be increased on the existing Route-1 of the pink bus service.

Memon said Chairman PPP Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and former president Asif Ali Zardari have instructed the Sindh government to provide as much as possible relief to the people in every field.

He said Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah was personally supervising such projects to bring relief to the people. He added the chief minister has approached the World Bank and Asian Development Bank to further expand the People’s Bus Service.

The provincial minister said the country’s first electric bus service was plying in Karachi whereas another big fleet has arrived at Karachi port. He apprised that electric bus service would start on new routes soon.

In response to a question, the provincial information minister said rains and floods had caused widespread devastation in Sindh due to which roads had been damaged, houses of millions of people had collapsed, and crops had been affected.

He said the Sindh government was constructing 2.2 million houses in 23 districts with the support of international financial institutions, farmers were being given financial support of Rs.5,000 per acre, while repair and maintenance projects of irrigation system and road infrastructure were being focused.

The minister said the treatment of heart diseases was free in Sindh for all classes of people, adding the NICVD network had been created in every district of Sindh.

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