Road safety clubs for schools, new CNG ground rules
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10/02/2003
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Tribune (New Delhi)
In a move to make the roads in the Capital safe, the Delhi Government has adopted new safety standards for the CNG buses and mooted the idea of road safety clubs to ensure safety of school buses in the city. Delhi Transport Minister Ajay Maken said to ensure that the 750 converted DTC buses operating currently on the city's roads meet the new norms, the Delhi Government had entrusted the inspection of the buses to an independent body. "Though LPG and CNG buses are running in several states of the country, Delhi is the only state which has carried out a thirty party inspection of its buses,' he said. He said some international experts on CNG, commissioned by the Delhi based Centre for Science and Environment, to carry out an independent survey of CNG implementation in Delhi, had, on inspecting many CNG buses, found them to be meeting the latest safety norms.