Sri Varalakshmi Narasimha Swamy Vari Devasthanam, Simhachalam is planning to replace its existing feet of diesel buses with electric ones.

The 4 buses of Devasthanam have coated about 6.6 lakh kilometres on the ghat street within the final 4 years, plying devotees from the foothills to the temple on the hill.

The ‘electrical mobility’ proposal got here within the wake of the suggestion made by the chairman of the Simhachalam temple belief board and former civil aviation minister P Ashok Gajapathi Raju.

Consequent to this, the temple authorities obtained quotations from an electrical bus producer. Whereas the 9-metre electrical bus is quoted at 1.55 crore, the 7-metre variant is meant to price round 1.45 crore for an outright buy.

In the meantime the Simhachalam officers made inquiries with the APSRTC officers, who’re planning to function 50 electrical buses on Tirumala-Tirupati ghat street.

The proposed ‘electrical mobility’ initiative is anticipated to come back with many advantages corresponding to saving on gas prices and gas consumption which in flip lower down on air pollution and greenhouse fuel emissions.