GURGAON: The Haryana Roadways is planning to introduce 1,200 additional buses in the state’s fleet this financial year at a cost of Rs 200 crore. The buses will be in general category and proportionally distributed among the state’s 21 bus depots. Gurgaon is likely to get around 60 buses.According to a senior official, work in this regard is already going on and buses will start getting being delivered to depots. Of Rs 200 crore, Rs 140 crore has alone spent on buying chassis. The rest Rs 60 crore will be used for fabricating bus bodies, said S K Ruhil, joint transport controller (technical), Haryana transport department.Fabrication is being done in-house by Haryana Roadways Engineering Corporation (HREC) and will be equally distributed among 21 bus depots and 15 sub-depots functioning under the depot concerned in the state, he added.HREC plans to deliver to deliver 100 buses per month. HREC general manager Rajiv Nagpal said, “Last year, too, we fabricated 770 buses. This year we have raised the bar. These buses are run by Haryana Shakti and deployed on long routes. Each bus will cost around Rs 17 lakh.”Gurgaon will get around 60 buses. However, Ruhil said distribution depends on replacement factor, i.e, how many buses are replaced from each depot. As per the replacement criteria, buses must be at least 8 years old and should have covered 7 lakh kilometres. Then only can they be eligible for replacement.Besides this, on the lines of 25 Volvo buses which were introduced in the last financial year, there is another plan to buy 20-25 such luxury buses this year too for long routes.However, no automobile company has been finalized yet. Officials said it would depend on lowest quotation. Work in this regard will be carried out during the July-August time period.Officials are hopeful of placing an order by December so that the buses are ready by March, next year. Haryana has a fleet of approximately 3,500 buses.On an average, Roadways buses ply 10.46 lakh km every day — this includes buses plying on both 1,204 intra-state and 446 inter-state routes — and carry 11.17 lakh passengers daily.