HRTC buses to be restored on 35 routes

Our Correspondent

Hamirpur, December 20

The local bus depot of Himachal Road Transport Corporation (HRTC) will restore bus service on as many as 35 suspended routes in the district.

Services on some routes were suspended following low turnout of passengers while buses on other routes did not ply due to technical snags in eight buses which could not be repaired following protest by the technical staff.

It was learnt that the scarcity of new tyres was also one reasons for suspension of bus services. It was surprising that yesterday, buses only on 48 routes were operational. Sources revealed that the buses plied only on major routes.

Vivek Lakhanpal, Regional Manager of the HRTC, here said workers had returned from the strike and the service on the remaining routes would be restored in three days.