Srinagar: Minister for TransportSatish Sharma today said that new fleet of Buses is arriving and the government will deploy them as per the needs and requirements of peoplebesides border areas will covered adequately.
The Minister said this while replying to a question raised by LegislatorAjaz Ahmad Jan on SRTC Buses in Legislative Assembly today.
He added that Border districts of Poonch and Rajouri will be prioritised as soon as the deployment of new fleet of buses is done.
While replying to a questionthe Minister informed that JKRTC plies bus services in the Haveli Constituency on the Jammu–Poonch and vice versa route continuouslyadding that due to cross border shellingthe said service was discontinued for one week and the same service was restored immediately after one week.
He further informed that JKRTC provided two vehicles for Poonch Haveli constituency on 10.05.2025 for shifting of affected people to safer zones. He added that JKRTC also plied bus services for shifting of stranded passengers to their home town Districts during the said period on the request of District AdministrationPoonch.
The Minister also informed the house that during Operation Sindoor58 RTC Buses were deployed in several areas of J&K for shifting the stranded passengers coming back from other neighbouring States. He informed that in Poonch 2 busesMendhar 1 busRajouri 3 busesJammu 4 busesBishnah 5 busesAkhnoor/Khour 11 busesSrinagar 2 busesDoda 14 busesKishtwar 4 busesPaddar/Nagsani 1 bus and for Bhaderwah 4 buses were deployed during Operation Sindoor for facilitation of public.
LegislatorsMuzaffar Iqbal Khan and Baldev Raj Sharma raised supplementary questions on the subject.
