Bhubaneswar: Ministry of Heavy Industries has sanctioned as many as 50 electric buses for Bhubaneswar under the 'Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles in India' Phase-II to give a push to clean mobility in public transportation.

A total of 5595 electric buses has been approved for 64 cities under the second phase. These buses will run around 4 billion kilometers during their contract period and are expected to save cumulatively about 1.2 billion liters of fuel, which will result in avoidance of 2.6 million tonnes of CO₂ emission.

Odisha Minister of State for Science and Technology, Ashok Chandra Panda had recently informed in the Assembly that the state government is planning to introduce electric buses in phases in a bid to curb air pollution in urban areas.

He had said that electric buses will ply in Puri, Bhubaneswar and Cuttack in the first phase.