India, Jan. 10 -- In a significant step towards clean and modern urban mobility, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi today flagged off 25 e-buses in Odisha's Sambalpur city.

The Chief Minister also inaugurated a state-of-the-art bus terminal for the Capital Region Urban Transport (CRUT) at Ainthapali in Sambalpur.

The CRUT will add 25 more e-buses to its fleet in Sambalpur by the end of this month. It will operate altogether 50 e-buses for the residents of the city, announced the Chief Minister, who also travelled in an e-bus after launching the service.

The state government had allocated a sum of Rs 238.14 crore for construction of the modern bus terminal and maintenance of buses for 10 years.

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