Malaysian-based M/s Doxport Technology has offered to bear the total cost of the project—Rs 3,500 crore—on a "build, operate and transfer (BOT)" basis for 20 years.
Moving at a height of six metre above the ground with an alighting and boarding point at every one km, the skybus would run on eight city routes covering 70 km, according to the proposal.
B Rajaram, a former engineer at the Konkan Railway Corporation and Indian Railways, who has designed the sky bus technology, made a presentation of the model to chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy on Tuesday. "The technology has undergone trails in Goa. Except for a minor accident, the experiment was successful," Rajaram said.
The sky bus can carry goods up to 30 tonnes and, Rajaram claimed, also be designed to clean roads at nights. The project would be completed in two years if the government cleared it, he added.
