Bangalore: A Train or an aircraft may have a Kitchen and toilet facilities while they move from city to city, but a Bus? Impossible things are happening these days and as desired by Passengers, buses may also be filled up with a Kitchen room and a wash room on a journey soon.
A Volvo bus with this catering service and a sanitary arrangement within will run on state roads in a month’s time according to Transport minister R. Ashok whose enthusiasm has no limits.
Travelers may be offered (as in air services) coffee or tea, Snacks or milk at reasonable prices while engaged in a long distance journey the ministers told media persons on Thursday after activating a new website in Vidhan Soudha for Armymen welfare department.
Initially one bus equipped with these basic facilities, will be run on state roads. If the trial succeeds, another 25such bus would cost Rs 80 lakhs. About 4 seats the back will be removed to fit a clean Kitchen and a sanitary toilet within that space.
50 more sleeper coach buses would be bought for journey to border districts like Gulbarga, as also city buses will be provided he added.