Tata Marcopolo two and three axle buses will be competitively priced in a range of INR 45-50 lakhs. The buses will also have two 5 kg fire extinguishers as per safety regulations.
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In a 2×2 seating layout, the buses will sport mobile charging points in each row while on the safety front, the buses will have an emergency door at the right hand rear while two windows on either side will also be emergency exit points. Tata Marcopolo Magna luxury buses will also sport a fiber roof instead of metal so as to adhere to latest safety norms. But seeing the increase in demand for luxury buses, the launch has been pre-poned.
Earlier, the plan was to launch these buses in 2016. The two axle buses will measure 12,000mm long, 3,800mm tall and 2,600mm wide and will be built of GI tubular structure with fire retardant marine plywood and 12mm skid proof vinyl flooring. These luxury buses with seating capacity of 30-50 persons will be spacious and with improved structure so as to cater to the demands of long road travel in the country. Three axle buses are currently under development and will be launched later in the HCV class in 2016. The two axle air conditioned luxury buses being launched first to be launched in two different sizes in the ICV class and MCV class. To overcome the problem, the BMTC even experimented by removing air-conditioners from some of the buses and converting them into non-AC vehicles.įive buses were converted thus but the experiment failed as few passengers preferred to travel in them, forcing the corporations to scrap all such vehicles.The first batch buses under the partnership with Marcopolo of Brazil will be launched in India later this year. Later, however, the corporations started receiving complaints such as emission of dark smoke, engine noise and poor air-conditioning. The engine performed well for the first few thousand kilometers but fuel efficiency was low.
Initially, the buses received positive feedback from commuters as their fare was lower than other air-conditioned buses. The buses, manufactured under a joint venture between Tata Motors and Marcopolo S A, Brazil, were first procured in 2008 under the JnNURM as the company was offering them at Rs 31 lakh apiece-just one-third of what another bus in the same segment would cost. But since the buses were purchased under the JnNURM, the corporations had to seek the Cabinet’s approval before scrapping them. Tata Marcopolo buses were decided to be scrapped as they were causing a loss of Rs 1.5 crore a month to the BMTC and the KSRTC. So in the future, before making the purchases, we will get the buses on trial,” she told Deccan Herald. “The bus-manufacturing companies have happily agreed to do so.
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BMTC Managing Director Ekroop Caur said the corporation would go for trial runs of all new models of buses before deciding on inducting them. Recently, the BMTC received 10 new variants of buses from Ashok Leyland on a trial basis. Transport Minister Ramalinga Reddy has now instructed the BMTC to get all new variants of buses on a trial basis before inducting them into the fleet. The buses were recently scrapped following a decision by the State Cabinet. The 142 Tata Marcopolo buses inducted under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM) had become white elephants as they guzzled more fuel and yielded low mileage. After losing crores of rupees due to the induction of uneconomic Tata Marcopolo buses into its fleet, the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) is now extra cautious about purchasing buses of new variants in the future.
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