New Delhi, Jan. 10 -- India's top electric bus manufacturers are gearing up for the government's next mega tender of 6,230 electric buses, cumulatively valued at over Rs.6,000 crore, to be deployed across five cities-Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Ahmedabad and Hyderabad-according to tender documents released on 9 January.

Delhi, grappling with severe air pollution, will get the largest allocation of 3,330 electric buses through this round of procurement, the tender document, reviewed by Mint, showed.

The submission of bids for the players opened on 9 January, and will run till 10 March. The latest electric bus tender comes weeks after the country concluded the largest ever tender of 10,900 ebuses under the Centre's PM E-Drive scheme, where new a...