The federal government will hand over the Green Line bus service to the Sindh government in December 2024.
The government of Sindh has completed the preparations to take over the operations of the Green Line Bus Service.
According to the announcement, the Secretary of Transport and MD Mass Transit Authority participated in the meeting in which detailed discussions were held on the project of connecting the Green Line with the Naj Line.
The ongoing operations, utility services, and green line bus subsidies were also discussed in the meeting.
Sharjeel Inam Memon has said that the Green Line project is an important component of Karachi’s public transport system, and wants the work of connecting the Green and Orange lines to be completed before December 2024.
He said that the federal government is giving a subsidy of 2 billion rupees on green line operations, which the government of Sindh will review, after the transfer of the green line project to Sindh, more buses will be added to it.
Sharjeel Memon also said that people have breathed a sigh of relief on the public transport projects of the Sindh government, public transport has been a long-standing problem in Karachi, and they want more improvements in the transport system.