Local MP and Minister of State for External Affairs Gen (retd) V K Singh said today the city will get 100 low-floor air conditioned buses by the end of this year. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has consented to release funds for the purchase of buses, he said.
A pilot ferry service in Yamuna will start after the monsoon and regular services are set to begin by this year end. Though it will be limited to only a few kilometres stretch from Tronica City in Ghaziabad to Sonia Vihar in Delhi, this service is likely to emerge as a major tourist attraction.
The private player roped in by the UP government for introducing battery-operated e-buses, conducted a traffic survey on Wednesday and chalked out possible routes. The project is in the nascent stage as GDA is yet to deduce a financial model that would be adopted for the project.
Ghaziabad has become the first district in the state to have electricityin all its households. Chief minister Yogi Adityanathpraised the Centre’s Saubhagya scheme and said his government’s efforts to augment the powerinfrastructure through it would cover the entire state in the future.
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday inaugurated the longest elevated road in the country in Ghaziabad.
The Ghaziabad district administration has identified land for two dumping grounds in the district and plans are in the offing to install electricity generation plant there with the help of the civic bodies including Ghaziabad Nagar Nigam (GNN) and Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA).
A Ghaziabad-bound local passenger train derailed near Okhla today when a wheel of a coach came off, officials said.
The Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation (GMC) on Sunday initiated work for repairing, restructuring and resurfacing different roads. The project is estimated to cost more than Rs100 crore.
