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Udupi : Five well equipped modern bus stands will be constructed at the cost of Rs. 50 crore in Udupi, said Pramod Madhwaraj, Minister of Fisheries, Sports and Youth Empowerment and also District in-charge Minister.

He was speaking after the laying the foundation for the K.S.R.T.C. (NURM) bus stand near the City Bus stand here on Sunday, 10^th September, 2017, he said that at the cost of Rs. 4 crore KSRTC city bus stand will be established within one year.

He said that the well equipped KSRTC bus stand will be established at the cost of Rs. 35 crore at Bannanje near here and already permission was granted for the said bus stand. Meanwhile at the cost of Rs. 10 crore city bus stands will be constructed at Manipal, Udupi and Malpe.

The NURM buses presently running very smoothly, Due to the convenience for the students and elderly people even though lot of pressure from the private bus operators, the KSRTC buses running in the district.

Presently at the cost of Rs. 4 crore, the city KSRTC bus stand will be established and at a onetime 10 KSRTC buses can park in the bus stand. Meanwhile car parking and 9 commercial shops will be made available and within one year, the NURM city bus stand will be ready, he said.

The chief guest, Gopala Poojary Byndoor MLA and President of KSRTC Authority said that tender will be called within three days for the Udupi bus stand. In the district 87 bus routes and 63 bus permits yet to be received. 44 KSRTC buses are running on the routes. Around 1800 new buses are purchased for the KSRTC Authority and around 1000 old buses will be replaced. 11 Volvo buses will be provided for the route of Mangaluru and Udupi, he said.

If proper land available in Karkala, new Depo will be constructed. Rs 10 crore was reserved for the Byndoor Bus Depot construction. If new Depot at Karkala and Byndoor established, separate Division at Udupi will be started, he said.

He said that in every village of the district KSRTC bus services made available in future. Meanwhile Kundapura-Hosangadi-Shivamugga and Kundapura-Hosanagara-Shivmugga routes buses will be provided.

During the occasion M A Gafoor Minority Development Authority President, Dinakar Babu President of Zilla Panchayat, Sheela K Shetty Vice President ZP, Meenakshi Madhav Bannanje President of Udupi CMC, Sandya Tilakraj Vice president CMC, Standing Committee President of CMC Shobha Kakkunje, Narasimhamurthy President of UUDA, Janardhan Thonse member of ZP, Nalini Rao President of Udupi Taluk Panchayat, Sudheer Director of KSRTC Mangaluru Division, Deepak Kumar Divisional Officer, Jagadish Chandra Narendra Kumar, Jaishanth Kumar and other officials of KSRTC, Sharan Basavaraj Architech, Unit Manager Uday Shetty and other among were present.