The Agartala-Kolkata bus carrier by process of Dhaka will resume from June 10 after more than two years.
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The Agartala-Kolkata bus carrier by process of Dhaka will resume from June 10 after a hiatus of over two years as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, an gracious of the Tripura government acknowledged on Saturday.
The bus carrier used to be first and main effect planned to restart from April 28 but postponed owing to “some technical causes”, he acknowledged.
Allege transport division predominant secretary LH Darlong has written letters to Bangladesh’s Ministry of External Affairs and the Indian High Price to the neighbouring country, apprising them of the proposed resumption of the global bus carrier.
“Tickets for the bus carrier will be in the market on the Tripura Highway Transport Company counter at Krishnanagar from June 1. Passengers want to have a real passport and visa to board a vehicle,” a transport division gracious acknowledged.
In a separate letter to the joint secretary of the Ministry of External Affairs in Fresh Delhi, advise extra secretary S Chowdhury told all eager in the resumption of the sinful border bus carrier.
The fare from Agartala to Kolkata by process of Dhaka will be Rs 2,300 per passenger, including travelling tax, while it’ll be Rs 1,000 from Tripura capital to Dhaka.
The global bus carrier will relieve other folks amid hovering air fares and suspension of prolonged-distance trains due to landslides in neighbouring Assam.
The bus will quilt a distance of around 500 km from Agartala to Kolkata by process of Dhaka in around 19 hours. A put together scamper between the two destinations by process of Guwahati takes around 35 hours, one other gracious acknowledged.
The bus facility on this route used to be suspended in March 2020 after the pandemic struck.
