KARACHI: With the view to improve the environment of the city where vehicular emissions contribute to its poor air quality, the Sindh government will conduct test running for environment-friendly buses in the Karachi from Monday (tomorrow).
Taking to Twitter on Sunday, Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon said that the Sindh government is launching a new bus service in city from Karachi Monday (tomorrow).
These buses will be country’s first-ever electrical public transport vehicles that are completely environment friendly.
The routes of the buses will be finalized after the test run for the electric vehicles is complete.
Earlier in 2021, Sindh Transport Minister Syed Owais Shah had launched the country’s first electric bus in Karachi.
Speaking to the media after the launching ceremony, he had promised that additional electric buses would be brought on to the city’s roads in cooperation with the private sector.
As many as 100 electric buses were planned to hit the road by the end of 2021 but it did not transpire.
