CAG report castigates govt for procuring low-floor buses at unjustified high rate and adding to cost by installing unnecessary features

Delhi government

The low-floor buses run by the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) is not only draining the government

With Rs 4224Cr Allocation, Govt Hints Transport Top Priority
Team TOI

New Delhi, March 9: The rise in annoying traffic jams across the city has a silver lining. The sharp rise in number of vehicles is a result of an increase in per capita income in the city, a rise of over Rs 8,000 a year. However, Delhi also reported a surge in the number of unemployed people registered with employment exchanges, apparently due to the economic slowdown.

After facing criticism for a series of fire-related mishaps in DTC

The Indraprastha thermal power plant, in the heart of Delhi, has recently shut down its polluting operations, but now a debate has begun over the room it leaves vacant.

The Delhi government is now considering the uses of the sprawling campus, which is prime property on the banks of the River Yamuna.

Sandeep Joshi

NEW DELHI: Tata Motors has undertaken an exhaustive check-up of all its low-floor high-capacity CNG buses supplied to Delhi Transport Corporation so far. The process will be completed by this month-end . The move comes in the wake of a series of fire accidents in these new buses raising passenger safety concerns.

Following a Delhi government directive for a complete check of low-floor buses supplied by Tata Motors, nearly 350 low- floor buses were checked at 10 depots over the last four days.

Anticipating less rush over the last four days due to public holidays, the Delhi Transport Corporation had taken the buses off the roads and sent them to the depots allotted to Tata Motors for a thorough check.

Even after the third consecutive day of the thorough check up of the low floor buses on Monday, the manufacturer Tata Motors is yet to identify the actual cause of the fire. The maintenance staff are conducting bumper to bumper check of the buses at all 10 low floor bus operating depots in the Capital, as the technical fault is yet to be detected.

New Delhi: This blaze is certainly spiralling out of control now. Fire was reported in yet another DTC low-floor bus in Vivek Vihar area of east Delhi on Thursday. In less than a month, this is the ninth bus of the newly-acquired fleet to have caught fire.