Ranchi, Oct. 20: A division bench of Jharkhand High Court today directed the state to discuss the modalities of starting the city bus service in the capital with the Ranchi Municipal Corporation.

Hearing a public interest litigation filed by one Jank Kumar Mishra highlighting the problems of the commuters in absence of the city bus service, the division bench headed by Chief Justice Gyan Sudha Misra ordered advocate-general P.K. Prasad to decide how the city bus service would be started.

The advocate-general explained to the court that the municipal corporation had earlier mooted the idea of adopting the model of city bus service as in Indore. The Indore model works under a separate road transport corporation exclusively handling the operation of city buses. But the state government had taken a policy decision not to adopt any separate corporation to run the city bus service, he said.