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Tamil Nadu to buy 3,000 new buses

VILLUPURAM: The State Transport Corporation will purchase 3,000 buses this year at a cost of Rs.500 crore. Of these, 350 will be allotted to the Villupuram division, said K.N.Nehru, Transport Minister, who visited the Villupuram bus depot on Friday to inaugurate a water treatment system and hand over promotion orders to 88 employees.

He gave promotion orders to 24 drivers, who have been made driving instructors, 39 conductors who have been promoted as checking inspectors and 15 senior assistants who have been upgraded superintendents and senior technicians. He felicitated 10 drivers who had demonstrated fuel efficiency skills.

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