Chhattisgarh’s Mukhyamantri Gramin Bus Yojana completes 1 year with 107 buses on 106 routes

On its first anniversary (Oct 4, 2026), Chhattisgarh’s Mukhyamantri Gramin Bus Yojana was reported to be operating 107 buses on 106 routes across 13 districts in the Bastar and Surguja divisions, providing scheduled services to 850 villages that previously lacked regular passenger transport. The article says the network expanded from 34 buses and 34 routes at launch (Oct 4, 2025) to a notified network of about 5,300 km, with viability-gap funding support for private operators.