The detailed project report for the project had been prepared by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation and submitted to the government recently, he said. State finance Minister K Anbazhagan, while submitting the state budget for the next fiscal in the Assembly, said that the project, comprising two rail corridors, would have a total length of 49km and would commence operations within five years. In line with other Indian metros like Delhi and Kolkata, Tamil Nadu's government on Friday decided to implement the metro rail project in Chennai to solve its traffic problems at a cost of Rs 9,000 crore. This would ensure that the services are not disrupted on long distance routes,” Bhatia said. “Airtel has appointed a distributor who would supply recharge vouchers of Rs 1,200 that would be given to the corporation officials at Rs 980. MSRTC will receive 25 per cent of the revenues generated through the new service. The PCO installations will be undertaken across 248 MSRTC bus depots spread over six regions. Mandeep Bhatia, COO (Mobile Services), Bharti Airtel Limited said Airtel will be responsible for the maintenance of the PCOs while MSRTC will be responsible for the cash management of the PCO operations in the buses. MSRTC has a fleet of 15,500 buses plying on 85,000 routes across Maharashtra everyday. Depending on the response, the facility will be extended to other buses on other routes as well, Paricharak said. MSRTC has entered into a tie-up with Airtel for a period of two years to offer telephone services to its commuters on long distance and medium distance routes. Local calls will be charged at Re 1 for 60 seconds and STD calls at Re 1 per 20 seconds,” said MSRTC chairman Sudhakar Paricharak. Friday onwards, this facility will enable the commuters to make calls to any destination in India for Re 1. Work on the remaining buses would be completed by May 25. “Around 1,900 buses have already been fitted with the GSM-based PCOs that have a pre-paid facility.
The services will cover 30 major cities including Pune, Mumbai, Nashik, Amravati, Aurangabad and Nagpur including nearly 218 towns.
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Pune, April 20: COMMUTERS travelling by Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation buses from the city to other places in the state this summer no longer have to rush to find a telephone booth to call up their families and friends on lonely highways to inform them they are safe.īharti Airtel Limited, over the next 30 days, will install public coin booths (PCOs) in the 4,500-odd buses of Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC). Passengers can make local and STD calls for Re 1 to any destination, courtesy Airtel Drop a coin, dial a number from PCOs on State Transport buses