After around two and a half months, the Chandigarh Transport Undertaking (CTU) resumed its inter-state bus service on June 10. Confirming this, Uma Shankar Gupta, Director (Transport) said, ‘Initially the buses would ply on nine routes in Punjab and seven in Haryana.’ On starting buses to Himachal Pradesh, Delhi and other neighbouring states, he said that they were yet to receive consent from these states. The long-route buses will start only from the ISBT, Sector 43. The buses will be operated from ‘point to point (origin to destination)’ only with 50 per cent passenger occupancy keeping in view the social distancing and other guidelines. No boarding or de-boarding of passengers will be allowed on the route. Passengers can also book their tickets through the online bus reservation management system. No night bus service has been planned for now. As a preventive measure, thermal screening of passengers will be done at the ISBT. The buses will be sanitised twice - at the starting point and at the end of the trip. Amit Gupta, GM, CTU said, Initially 40 buses would be pressed into service. They would scale up the operation as per the requirement.’