BUDGET 2022-23: With Rs4bn, more buses to be bought for city.

KARACHI -- The Sindh government has allocated a sum of Rs4 billion in the next financial year 2022-23 for procuring more buses to be run in Karachi under its Sindh Peoples Intra-district Bus Project.

In his budget speech at the Sindh Assembly on Tuesday, Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah said that his government wanted to develop a mass transit system in major cities, especially in Karachi, 'to ensure safe comfortable and efficient public transport service at affordable fare and on sustainable basis'.

He said that during the outgoing financial year 2021-22, the Sindh government had spent Rs6.4bn for procurement of 250 buses. 'For next financial year, Rs4 billion has been earmarked for the same purpose,' he said.

He said that the Sindh Peoples Intra-district Bus Project was aimed at providing all social classes of Karachi with a modern, efficient and sustainable transportation system...