In a bid to augment public transport in the national capital, the Delhi government is all set to add 3,000 buses to the city’s public bus fleet this year.
In a bid to augment public transport in the national capital, the Delhi government is all set to add 3,000 buses to the city’s public bus fleet this year. This will be the first procurement since the AAP government come to power in the national capital last year in February.
According to the Kejriwal government’s plan, 1,000 buses to be run under cluster system will start operating by the end of the month and 1,000 new DTC low-floor buses will hit the streets from August.
Elaborating on the 1,000 cluster buses, city transport minister Gopal Rai said two buses will start operating in the last week of April and they will ply under cluster scheme that is run by the Delhi Integrated Multi-Modal Transit System Ltd (DIMTS).
The AAP government has already made it clear that it cannot implement the odd-even scheme permanently till such time that the public transport is upgraded.
“Apart from cluster buses, 1,000 new DTC buses will start operating on the capital’s roads from August following which people will be benefited,” the transport minister said.
On Friday, the Kejriwal government had announced a premium bus service for Delhiites for which seats could be booked in advance by the passengers through their smartphones on the lines of the app-based taxi services.
The city minister said the Kejriwal government is expecting 1,000 buses, which will only be air-conditioned, by the end of this year.
Bus aggregators will have an individual apps like Ola and Uber and they will be allowed to decide their fares, but if the need arises the Kejriwal government has made it clear that it will prescribe the upper limit of fares or take steps to check any predatory pricing.
