Sixty buses of Karachi Metropolitan Corporation will be shifted on diesel under public-private partnership (PPP-mode) to provide travel facilities to the citizens, Karachi Mayor Murtaza Wahab said on Monday.

“These buses were available with us and it was only a matter of intentions, due to the CNG crisis, one of the buses has been shifted to diesel as a test case in Lahore and now after the change of fuel system and the bus has been brought to Karachi,” he told reporters on Monday.

He said that covering a distance of 1200 kilometres, bus fares and routes have not been decided yet, details will be informed about soon. A public-private partnership mechanism should be made to bring these buses on the roads.

The city mayor said that the Sindh government was already in the process of improving the transport facilities for the citizens of Karachi. Red and Pink buses have arrived in the city, he said and added that the KMC has decided to make the available buses functional while fulfilling its responsibilities in this regard.

“These buses will also be seen plying on the roads of Karachi soon,” he said and added that the strategy has been evolved to provide whatever resources were available and it would be fully implemented because all these assets were owned by citizens.