By Our Correspondent
MALKANGIRI/BHUBANESWAR: The people of six districts– Malkangiri, Koraput, Nabarangpur, Rayagada, Kalahandi, and Gajapati were on Thursday delighted after Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik launched the Location Accessible Multimodal Initiative (LAccMI) scheme in Malkangiri district.
The buses will run from panchayats to block headquarters and from block headquarters to district headquarters. CM Patnaik took a bus ride from Malkangiri to MV-3 , where he launched the scheme.
Sources said, in the first phase, the scheme will provide bus service in rural areas of six districts.Under the LAccMI scheme, the State Government will operate 1000 buses in the rural areas across the state with allocated budget of Rs 3,178 crore.
