No provision for new buses in civic budget

Falling short
According to the Central Institute of Road Transport (CIRT), a minimum of 55 buses are needed per lakh population. Considering the 33 lakh population of the city, it should have 1,815 buses. Pimpri-Chinchwad, which is also catered to by the PMPML, needs 825 buses, taking the total number of buses PMPML requires to 2,640. According to the latest PMPML figures, currently the city has 1,697 buses, of which only about 1,200 are actually on the roads. u00a0