For Value-Added Services, Operators Allowed To Fix Fares New Delhi: The state cabinet on Monday, gave its approval to a proposal to allow corporates operating buses on prescribed route clusters. The proposal is to provide value added services like AC buses and sitting-only buses for which, the operator would be free to fix fares on his own. There would however, be a ceiling of 20% trips per cluster and 30% trips per route where these services can be provided. Corporatisation was proposed more than a year ago as a solution to the rampaging Bluelines, and the cluster system was mooted so that a bunch of routes close to each other, would be clubbed under one cluster where a single operator would run his buses, minimising the possibility of competition. As per the long-term proposal, buses in the city would run on private and state ownership at a 40:60 ratio. In a candid confession, the cabinet note clearly said that only 331 of the existing 657 scheduled routes in the city are being served at present. DIMTS has already divided the 657 routes into 17 clusters to ensure that no route is left out just because it is