nagpur the nagpur municipal corporations transport committee led by its chairman and bjp corporator bunty kukde on monday approved rs 1846 lakh spent on providing green buses to ferry players coaches and officials who had come to nagpur for the asian school badminton championship and khasdar krida mahotsavthis expenditure comes at a time when the civic body incurred a loss of rs 2335 crore in the first quarter of the current fiscal during the recentlyconcluded school badminton championship held from july 6 to july 13 the nmcs transport department as a mobility partner had provided eight airconditioned green buses free of cost it incurred a cost of rs 12 lakhthe panel also gave nod to departments expenditure of rs 646778 for providing airconditioned buses for khasdar krida mahotsav held in may this yearthe committee however withheld the income and expenditure statements for three months apriljune of the current fiscal as per the statement the department generated rs 1606 crore through sale of tickets as against expenditure of rs 3941 crore kukde however said the account statements of these three months have been kept on hold as additional municipal commissioner was not present for the meetingthe committee also passed the departments proposal to provide free bus pass for hivaids patients said kukde the panel cleared the proposal along with some changes and it included free bus pass facility for cancer patients too he said beneficiaries can commute in nmc buses six times a month using the pass