India, Feb. 17 -- The Haryana government on Monday approved the tender for procurement of 200 electric buses for Gurugram and Faridabad during a meeting of the high-level procurement committee chaired by chief minister Nayab Singh Saini in Chandigarh, officials said.

A senior Gurugram Metropolitan City Bus Limited (GMBCL) official confirmed the approval, saying the tender was discussed in detail before being cleared. The electric buses are expected to join the city bus fleet by April. As per details shared by GMBCL, one of the bidders quoted Rs.55.47 per kilometre for providing 9-metre buses under the PM E-Sewa project.

According to tender documents, the agreement for operating the buses will be for 12 years, and each bus will run 5,400...