Lucknow, Sep 12 (UNI) Announcing to connect all the villages via buses by 2022 with the purchase of 1,000 new buses, both AC and non-AC, the Uttar Pradesh government has come up with an idea to give pilgrims sops such as free bus services from different places of the state during the Kumbh Mela at Allahabad in January next year.

The government has also decided to ply 50 pink buses in the state specially for the women passengers. These buses would have drivers and conductors, women only.