Online booking and wearing masks will be must for passengers boarding the Haryana Roadways buses which are to start plying on select routes in the state from Friday, said Transport Minister Mool Chand Sharma.
Initially, the buses will ply from ten depots of Ambala, Bhiwani, Hisar, Kaithal, Karnal, Narnaul, Panchkula, Rewari, Rohtak and Sirsa on select point-to-point routes, he said.
“No passenger will be allowed to board the bus if online booking has not been done. The bus services will be point-to-point on select routes and wearing masks will be mandatory. Thermal screening of passengers will also be done,” Mr Sharma told PTI over phone on Thursday.
The Haryana government has already sanitised its bus terminals and the ordinary non-air-conditioned buses which will hit roads, he said.
To ensure that social distancing is strictly followed, only 30 passengers will be allowed to board the 52-seater buses. In the bus terminuses too, passengers will have to maintain social distancing in the waiting area, he said.
Digitally addressing a press conference on Wednesday, Haryana Chief Minister M L Khattar had announced that public transport will resume operation in the state on an “experimental basis” from Friday, with a limited number of buses plying on select routes.
A government spokesman, meanwhile, said the buses, which will ply within Haryana, will not be started in areas severely affected by COVID-19.
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