Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
New Delhi: Bus commuters have a reason to cheer. The transport department has finally been allotted land for a depot in Rohini, a move that has paved the way for more cluster buses to be launched. Till now, the Delhi government had been blaming the lack of depot space for …
Pune commuters pay the highest fare for public transport and travel in the oldest buses. A study carried out by Parisar, a city-based NGO, reveals that Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML) buses suffer breakdowns more frequently and are infrequent than the public transports running in cities like Mumbai, Bangalore, …
New Delhi: The Delhi government is looking into using the Delhi Metro smart-card as a common transport card for metro, DTC and cluster buses. In a meeting held last week, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) was asked to look into the feasibility of merging the Delhi Metro smart-card with …
The Delhi high court on Wednesday issued notices to various civic agencies, including MCD and NDMC, on a PIL seeking directions to them for maintaining cleanliness and improving sanitation in the capital. A bench of Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw sought responses from civic authorities …
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought responses from various civic bodies, including the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC), on a Public Interest Litigation that sought directives for improvement of sanitation and cleanliness in the Capital. A bench of acting Chief Justice A K …
The Delhi government on Tuesday has won the “Best PPP Initiative in Urban Transport” award for introducing cluster buses in the city at the Urban Mobility Conference 2011 organised by the Institute of Urban Transport (India). The awards were given away by Union Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath and was …
Electronic Ticketing Machines (ETMs) will be installed in DTC buses only by March 2012, even though the Delhi government had floated the proposal a year ago. The Transport department has floated tenders for this project for the second time now, and according to Transport Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely, ETMs will …
The Capital will soon get its first combined bio-gas plant that will generate enough gas to fuel 120 city buses. A memorandum of understanding has been signed between the Delhi Government and the Government of Sweden for production of compressed natural gas fuel using waste through modern bio-gas technology. On …
Cluster-2 of private stage carriage buses was launched by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit from Delhi Secretariat on Monday with 50 non-airconditioned buses being flagged off. The first cluster of this service was launched in May this year. The flag-off also marked another major stride in Delhi adopting the public-private partnership …
New Delhi: Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) buses will soon be running on fuel derived from vegetable waste and sludge from treated sewage. The Centre has struck a deal with the Swedish government to set up a compressed biofuel plant at Delhi Jal Board’s Keshopur sewage treatment plant (STP). The fuel …
New Delhi: Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has issued notices to 30 government offices, schools and colleges in the last one month for mosquito-breeding on their premises. These include MTNL offices in Okhla and Mandawali, Guru Nanak Dev Khalsa College and some DTC bus depots. According to senior MCD officials, …
New Delhi: Whether it’s the timely investment of a surplus amount in the employees provident fund trust or procuring monthly concession passes for commuting on the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway, the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) seems to have been lagging behind consistently. That’s the conclusion that the audit report by the Comptroller …
“Sense of the House” over need for urgent repairs to be conveyed Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said on Friday that the “sense of the House” on the issue of poor upkeep of the roads under the Municipal Corporation of Delhi and the need to repair them urgently would be conveyed …
The report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has stated that during 2008-09, Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) procured 2,500 low floor buses (1,000 AC and 1,500 Non-AC) at an inordinately high price. It also found that between September and November 2009, the Corporation procured additional 625 buses at the …
New Delhi: TOI had on August 4, 2011, reported extensively on how CAG had pointed out irregularities in projects related to streetscaping, signage, streetlights, construction of roads and flyovers, purchase of telecommunication system for the police and utilization of bus fleet among others. In a shocking revelation, CAG said the …
New Delhi: If you complained of fewer DTC buses on the road during CommonwealthGames,here’sthe reason why: Several low-floor buses were kept idle even as bus drivers were withdrawn from regular schedules and re-deployed in buses plying for CWG. The Comptroller andAuditor General’s report on the bus service during CWG throws …
Severe Space Crunch Stops Cluster Buses In Their Tracks New Delhi: The muchhyped bus cluster scheme of Delhi government, it seems, is in a limbo. Months after the first cluster was launched in south Delhi, with promises of getting all 17 clusters up and running
New Delhi: After Tata and Ashok Leyland, Volvo is now eyeing the Delhi Transport Corporation. A single bus of the company will be plying on trial basis on the Teevra Mudrika route.
JV between Swedish, Delhi govts will convert biogas from Keshopur sewage treatment plants to CNG In the first such project undertaken in the country, Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) will be produced from biogas generated at sewage treatment plants in the Capital. The CNG produced will be then utilised to run …
