Tata Motors bags orders for over 5000 buses and chassis

Mumbai: Tata Motors on Friday said it has bagged supply orders for over 5000 buses and chasis from multiple state transport undertakings across the country.

The cumulative orders span a wide range of the company's passenger mobility solutions including Magna, Cityride, Starbus, Starbus Prime, among others, Tata Motors said.

These new orders have been secured from the state corporations of Maharashtra, Gujarat, Bihar, Rajasthan, Kerala, Haryana, Telangana, as well as North Western Karnataka Road Transport Corporation and Chandigarh Transport Undertaking.


Each tender was awarded through a competitive e-bidding process under the Government's procurement system, with deployments scheduled in phases, as agreed with the respective state transport undertakings, it said.

These buses and bus chassis are configured for intercity, long-haul and intracity operations. They are designed to deliver reliable performance, passenger comfort and efficient operating economics across varied duty cycles, Tata Motors said.

"With strong product engineering and a lifecycle support ecosystem built around customer uptime, we continue to enable STUs to serve millions of passengers every day. These cumulative orders strengthen our position as the country's preferred mobility partner and reinforce our commitment to shaping India's public transport of tomorrow," said Anand S, vice president and head of commercial passenger vehicle business at Tata Motors Ltd.