Odisha, ‘Mo Bus’ Service received the prestigious UN Public Service Award

Highlights:

• Mo Bus, Odisha-based public transport service i.e. Capital Region Urban Transport (CRUT) has been honored with a prestigious United Nations award, for their role and efforts in helping the world recover better from Covid19.
• The public transport service has been recognised for its role in “promoting gender-responsive public services to achieve the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals)".
• Among the other winners of this year’s awards, announced by Liu Zhenmin, United Nations Under Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs during a virtual event to commemorate the United Nations Public Service Day (celebrated on June 22), were public service initiatives from Thailand, Brazil, Canada, Ireland, Panama, the Philippines, Poland, Saudi Arabia, and Ukraine.

• The Mo Bus service was launched on November 6, 2018 to ensure “transformation of the urban public transport scenario in the city and its hinterland through use of smart technology, service benchmarking and customer satisfaction”.
• CRUT plans to introduce 289 buses in three phases with the induction of 200 new buses and refurbishment of 89 old buses.