Chandigarh, Oct. 7 -- The Punjab government has put on hold the Rs.600 crore Amritsar Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) discontinuation decision, the Punjab and Haryana high court was told.

The information was submitted by the state's advocate general MS Bedi during hearing of a public interest litigation (PIL) on September 29.

"In view of the statement made by the Punjab advocate general that the discontinuance of scheme has been kept in abeyance, we defer the consideration of stay application to the next date fixed in the matter," the bench of chief justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra and justice Rohit Kapoor observed while dealing with an application that sought stay on the decision.

The court was hearing the PIL filed by the Amritsar Vikas ...