New Delhi: There will be more than 7,000 buses available for commuter on Monday morning, with 541 private buses that hit Delhi’s streets under the ‘Pairaran Bus service’.
With the capital fighting against severe air pollution, Minister of Transportation Kailash Gahlot recently announced that the Delhi government would employ around 1,000 personal buses to add to the city public transport fleet.
Public notifications are issued on Thursday for private bus involvement and contact details of the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) Regional Manager, which will operate this service, provided.
Until Thursday, a total of 723 personal bus engaged under service, where 541 will start prying from Monday, said an official.
This personal bus, which includes school buses, buses with all-Indian tourism licenses, rented buses etc., most have contract carriage permits, which allow them to transport passengers from one point to another, without taking or dropping passengers on the road.
“This 541 bus has come on Saturday and a special stage train permit has been issued for this so that the bus can operate on the DTC route and choose and drop passengers from the designated bus stop,” he said.
“The rest of the bus will be issued a similar special permit on Monday and Tuesday, more than 700 private buses will start operating,” he said.
“The response from the bus operator is very good and the reason behind this is a meeting of the Department of Transportation with the operator before public notification is issued,” he said.
Transportation officials say that DTC, which repaid the route and will manage operations, told to be flexible with settings so that a number of adequate personal buses can be arranged.
The source said that most of the demands of bus operators, such as flexible timings for school buses, minimum kilometers of operating convincingly etc., have been fulfilled.
“The bus will be assigned routes and the number of buses that are almost the same will be deployed in the north, east, western and southern zone.
Although more buses will be deployed on the Trunk route that see more passenger traffic, the bus will be proportionally deployed so that every part of town Filled, “said an DTC official in anonymity.
“The bus will have a DTC signage on the windshield and will have a screen board in front and next to mention that this is plying under the paraavaran bus service.
Private operators will give the driver, but the bus will have our conductor,” he said, adding that a personal bus must report to the depot assigned every morning.
Previous gahlots said that the bus was being deployed as an emergency step for a month to add public transport in the city.
During a strange road allotment scheme since 2016, the government has involved a private bus under the ‘parayavaran rent’ to add public transportation.