550 buses being included in BRTC Eid service fleet

The Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) will add 550 new buses to its Eid service fleet.

BTRC Chairman Md Tajul Islam said this at a view-exchange meeting held at the BRTC building at Motijheel in the capital on Monday. 

The BTRC chairman said they have 600 buses in Dhaka city. Of those 550 buses will be added to the Eid service and other 50 buses will continue its operation within Dhaka city. The existing long-route buses will operate as usual, he added.

The BRTC buses will take part in transporting passengers from Dhaka to various destinations in the country on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr, he added.

He said there are 1,350 buses in BRTC’s fleet. Of those, 1,253 buses were on route in 2023 while 1,233 were on route in 2022.