DTC may buy AC buses for Metro feeder routes

  • 04/06/2004

  • Hindu (New Delhi)

Despite projecting itself as a common man-friendly regime, the Delhi Government has still not been able to shed its opulent plans for more pragmatic ones and has suggested to the Delhi Transport Corporation that it purchase over 100 air-conditioned buses - costing around Rs 27 lakhs each - to be operated as feeder services for the upcoming state-of-the-art Delhi Metro railway system.The proposal finds a mention in the Refining Reform Plan for Restructuring of DTC, in which certain revisions were incorporated on February 14, 2004. The note which was prepared to invite comments of some of the stakeholders to the proposals so that they could be incorporated in the Reform Plan, if found acceptable, makes a mention of the intention to introduce air-conditioned buses on feeder routes of the Metro.