HYDERABAD: Sindh Minister for Information and Transport Sharjeel Inam Memon on Saturday launched Peoples Bus Service in Hyderabad, the third city after Karachi and Larkana to have the elite public transport service.

The inauguration ceremony was held at Hyder Chowk from where the bus began its first intra-city journey to Hatri with the minister, deputy commissioner Fuad Soomro, PPP leader Saghir Qureshi, SSP Amjad Ahmed Shaikh and other party workers on board.

Earlier, the minister congratulated people of Hyderabad on the bus service which would charge a fare between Rs20 and Rs50 and offer free rides for the first three days.

He urged them to take care of the buses as their own property and said that the service would also ply on Hyderabad-Mirpurkhas route and more routes would be opened in Hyderabad city as well. The service, he said, would be launched in Sukkur in December.

He said that billions of rupees worth development projects for road and infrastructure had be en planned for Hyderabad.

The chief minister’s special assistant for Hyderabad affairs Saghir Qureshi, PPP district information secretary Ehsan Abro, Pasha Qazi and others were also present at the bus launch.

Published in Dawn, November 20th, 2022