Mumbai, March 13 Tata Motors announced on Friday that it has secured supply orders for over 5,000 buses and chassis from various state transport undertakings across the country.
The orders cover a wide range of the company's passenger mobility solutions, including Magna, Cityride, Starbus, Starbus Prime, among others, Tata Motors said.
These new orders have been secured from the state corporations of Maharashtra, Gujarat, Bihar, Rajasthan, Kerala, Haryana, Telangana, as well as the North Western Karnataka Road Transport Corporation and Chandigarh Transport Undertaking.
Each tender was awarded through a competitive e-bidding process under the Government's procurement system, with deployments scheduled in phases, as agreed with the respective state transport undertakings, it said.
These buses and bus chassis are configured for intercity, long-haul, and intracity operations. They are designed to deliver reliable performance, passenger comfort, and efficient operating economics across varied duty cycles, Tata Motors said.
"With strong product engineering and a lifecycle support ecosystem built around customer uptime, we continue to enable STUs to serve millions of passengers every day. These cumulative orders strengthen our position as the country's preferred mobility partner and reinforce our commitment to shaping India's public transport of tomorrow," said Anand S, Vice President and Head of Commercial Passenger Vehicle Business at Tata Motors Ltd.