Delhiites! Brace for commuting nightmare as 1,300 orange buses may go off road

January 30, 2016 00:24

Hindustan Times reports: The Delhi government's plan to add more buses to the Delhi Transport Corporation fleet has hit a roadblock as private operators have refused to add more vehicles till the existing cluster scheme is set right.

Not only this, Delhi may lose 1,300 buses from the current fleet of 6,000 as private operators are planning to exit the service. Under the cluster scheme, private operators ply buses on routes allotted to them. They had been assigned the orange colour.

Sources said operators of cluster buses are facing a loss of Rs 3 crore to Rs 4 crore each year and have written to the government to resolve their issues otherwise they will be forced to stop running the service.

"The cluster scheme has been executed badly and government needs to review it before planning to include more buses. The government has no space to park the buses they have so they first get parking space and build depots. Buying more buses is not the only solution," said one of the operators.

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