aurangabad while the bus service in aurangabad city continues to remain affected for over 70 days due to strike by the maharashtra state road transport company msrtc workers the civic authorities on sunday restarted a few buses with the help of exservicemento begin with five routes have been identified for operating a fleet of around 11 buses in two shifts cidco to railway station via tv centre aurangpura to ranjangao via central bus stand cidco to ghanegao via ranjangaon cidco to jogeshwari via ranjangaon and chikalthana to ranjangao via cidco are the identified routes an official release saida group of 56 exservicemen will work as drivers and conductors to run the bus service in aurangabad the exservicemen having driving experience of minimum 15 years will serve as drivers for the local public transportation a civic official saidstating that only fully vaccinated passengers will be allowed to board the buses the authorities have appealed to the citizens to follow covidappropriate behaviour while travellingafter emerging as a lossmaking unit in the past the city bus service in aurangabad was relaunched on january 23 2019 while official measures were on to give a push to public transportation the outbreak of covid19 first affetced the city bus service followed by the extended strike of msrtc workers as civic authorities had hired the services of msrtc drivers and conductors to run the city bus service the extended strike led to unavailability of workforce for public transport utility prior to the pandemic the ascdcl was operating a fleet of 50 buses with different passes and schemes being in place to attract travellers among different hitech measures a special mobile application was developed and launched to enable citizens in tracking the movement of buses on realtime basis