Daily ridership 160,000 | Service type Transit bus | |
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Locale Nagpur metropolitan area Service area Nagpur, Maharashtra, India Parent organization Nagpur Municipal Corporation | ||
Nagpur Mahanagar Parivahan Limited is a special purpose vehicle of the Nagpur Municipal Corporation to run transport services within Nagpur city. In 2012, it was reported to have a daily ridership of 160,000 commuters per day.
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In 2007, the Nagpur Municipal Corporation signed an agreement with a private party to purchase the buses and operate them under a 'Purchase-Operate-Transfer' model and pay the corporation a fixed royalty per bus. The corporation was also to earn back 50% of its revenue from advertisements on buses.
In 2013, it was announced that the Government of India would fund the corporations plans of building a new bus station at Mor Bhavan and a depot at Dhaba along with the provision of purchasing 1250 more buses.
Fleet
In 2007, the Nagpur Municipal Corporation signed an agreement with Vansh Nimay Infrastructure Limited (VNIL) to procure 230 buses at its own expense and pay the NMC a fixed royalty per bus. In 2009, the NMPL received 240 buses with funding from the Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India, under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM), out of the total of 300 buses for which funds were sanctioned.
In 2014, Swedish bus manufacturer Scania AB announced that it would hand over the first ethanol-powered city bus made in India to the Nagpur Municipal Corporation on the recommendation of Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Transport, for trial runs. The Ministry requested clearance from the Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI) in order to amend the Motor Vehicles Act of 1988 to legally recognise ethanol as a commercial fuel type.