Hyderabad, July 8 -- The Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TGSRTC) has brought 268 JBM electric buses back into operation after receiving a fitness clearance from a technical team, local reports stated.

All 500 JBM buses, operating in the Karimnagar, Nizamabad, Warangal, Nalgonda and Mahabubnagar regions, were temporarily withdrawn from service on July 2 after a series of fire accidents.

Earlier, a total of 150 buses had been cleared by a technical team consisting of experts from TGSRTC's Command Control Centre at Bus Bhavan, JBM engineers, and battery experts from China. An additional 118 buses were cleared by the team on Wednesday, July 8.

Rest of the buses are expected to start operations in the next two to three days. To ...