Jammu, March 11 -- Come May 2024, a fleet of five hydrogen-fuel cell commercial buses shall start operating at a height of 11,500 feet in the eco-fragile Himalayan region of Ladakh.

The National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) Ltd (NTPC) under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative is going to provide these buses to the Ladakh administration which is already working towards making Ladakh a carbon-neutral region.

A high-level meeting was chaired by the Administrative Secretary of the Transport Department, UT Ladakh Amit Sharma to finalize the draft proposal of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) Ltd. and the Transport Department, Ladakh.

The UT administration is racing a...