A significant portion of Jammu Kashmir Road Transport Corporation’s electric bus fleet has gone off the roads, with officials confirming that more than half of the e-buses operating in Jammu city have been grounded for months due to high maintenance costs and a lack of mechanical staff.
JKSRTC operates 20 electric buses in Jammu.
Over ten have been lying idle in the yard for almost a year. Most have faulty compressors. Some have flat tyres.
According to employees, many of these faults were not attended to on time, which pushed the buses out of service and turned them into scrap.
JKSRTC had purchased 40 e-buses from Tata Motors in 2019, with 20 allocated to Jammu and 20 to Srinagar. Six years later, as per the official sources, the fleet in Jammu is facing serious operational problems.
Officials said the compressors needed for these buses must be supplied by Tata Motors. Each compressor costs between five and
