{"id":187570,"date":"2025-11-08T20:49:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T15:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=187570"},"modified":"2025-11-08T20:49:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T15:49:04","slug":"8-smart-buses-grounded-due-to-lack-of-funds-in-srinagar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/11\/08\/8-smart-buses-grounded-due-to-lack-of-funds-in-srinagar.html","title":{"rendered":"8 smart buses grounded due to lack of funds in Srinagar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-187571\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/11\/hh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"351\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/11\/hh.jpg 351w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/11\/hh-275x220.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/>Srinagar : More than eight e-buses in Srinagar, Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir have been grounded due to lack of funds needed for repairs and purchase of spare parts.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, the authorities have also not cleared the liabilities owed to the State Road Transport Corporation of the territory for providing free travel to women passengers.<\/p>\n<p>Top officials in the transport department in a media interview said the corporation has written several times to the authorities seeking compensation for losses incurred after the administration directed SRTC not to charge women passengers. Officials said no payments have been released so far.<\/p>\n<p>They said due to insufficient funding, the corporation has been unable to carry out timely repairs and several buses now have deflated tyres or remain grounded for want of spare parts<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of 20 e-buses operating in Srinagar, more than eight have been grounded. The number may rise if the situation continues,\u201d the officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar : More than eight e-buses in Srinagar, Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir have been grounded due to lack of funds needed for repairs and purchase of spare parts. According to Kashmir Media Service, the authorities have also not cleared the liabilities owed to the State Road Transport Corporation of the territory for providing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":187571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-statements-form-kashmir"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/11\/hh.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187573,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187570\/revisions\/187573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}