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Dual fuel pricing: State bus units to take hit of Rs 5,000 crore

Bijith R / New Delhi September 08, 2008, 0:33 IST The road transport undertakings of various states will have to fork out over Rs 5,000 crore if the recommendations of the BK Chaturvedi Committee on dual pricing of diesel are accepted by the central government. This could put these loss-making undertakings under severe financial strain. The state road transport undertakings made total losses of over Rs 2,150 crore in 2006-07.