Judges want proposal revised for benefit of differently-abled
The State government on Thursday informed the Madras High Court that 10% of the 2,213 city buses to be purchased for use in Chennai, Coimbatore and Madurai would be low-floor buses which could be accessed easily by the differently-abled.
Appearing before a Division Bench of Justices M. Sathyanarayanan and R. Hemalatha, Advocate General Vijay Narayan said the government had already inked a pact with German development bank KfW for purchasing new city buses.
The bank had agreed to finance a project for operation of climate-friendly modernization of bus service in the major cities of the State as a measure towards improving the performance and restructuring of the ailing State Transport Undertakings (STUs).