Gurgaon: Gurugram Metropolitan City Bus Limited (GMCBL) plans to introduce two new bus routes to Delhi from next month.
GMCBL officials said the bus tended to start plying on the route after two weeks, once the conductor had been recruited.
GMCBL has run eight buses to Delhi on two routes.
Toi has reported the last month that city bus services plan to add a new route – Gurgaon Bus stand to the Kashmiri and Bus gate to Sarai Kale Khan – on August-end.
The deadline is expanded due to the delay in recruitment of conductors for new routes, officials said.
“We have completed a survey for two new routes and will start running the bus on them so conductors have been recruited.
This process is ongoing and we hope that they will be employed in the next 10 to 15 days.
We should start operating on these routes before , but the recruitment of conductors is delayed for several reasons, “said an official GMCBL.
“Initially, two to four buses will ply on each route.
We will add or reduce the number of buses depending on footsteps,” officially added.
At present, GMCBL has two routes that connect Gurgaon and Delhi – route 202D from Gurgaon Bus stand to Badarpur and route 210 from Bus Stand to Karol Bagh.
Four buses run on each of these routes today.
However, GMCBL officials said while route 210 was one of the best performance routes at the moment, 202D did not see many passengers, produced around Rs 28 per km, which was considered ‘moderate profit’ by the GMCBL standard.
Officials said that even though city bus services were suspended for three months ago and a massive swim in Ridership was reported in May and June this year because of a pandemic, the number had begun to take since then.
While GMCBL produced an average of Rs 34.6 per km in February last year before the pandemic hit the city, when a total of 24.5 lakh people used the bus service, the number fell to Rs 9.7 per km when the service was continued on July 2020, with Drivers are only 3.4 lakh all months.
The figures increased in the months that followed, reached Rs 30.2 per km in February this year – a month who saw 20.6 Lakh riders – before the second covid wave crashed into the city.
When cases jumped between March and May, GMCBL’s revenue continued to fall, from Rs 28.2 per km, when the service had a buildup of 22.9 lakh, up to Rs 12.1 per km in May, when only 1.9 lakh people were Use service.
Since then, however, the number has increased, with the income of Rs 15.7 per km and one footstep 6.1 lakh was recorded in June, which increased to Rs 24.8 per km in July, when 17.3 people lakh Use the bus.
Officials say even though the figures must have passengers and income have not been collected for August, services see an average of 65,000 to 70,000 motorists per day.
“If we count even at an average of 60,000 riders per day, GMCBL has seen more than 18 passengers lakh in August,” an official said.
GMCBL operates 177 buses on 27 current routes.