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Chief Minister Rekha Gupta connected Saturday said her authorities was trying to revive the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC), which has mounting losses of ₹97,000 crore. Addressing a BJP workers’ gathering successful Rohini, the CM said that the Delhi authorities aims to fortify nationalist transport by expanding the fig of e-buses successful the metropolis to 11,000 successful the coming years. “In the past 10 months, we person tried to revive the DTC. The erstwhile authorities successful Delhi handed implicit the full operations of DTC to Delhi Integrated Multi-Modal Transit System,” she said.
This threw the DTC into situation and forced DTC drivers and conductors to beryllium idle, she added.
“But we are gradually rectifying it by solving assorted issues, including outgo of pensions. The autobus operations person been taken distant from the DIMTS and present the DTC volition run them,” Ms. Gupta said.
The authorities is moving to person each nationalist transport buses to e-buses. Currently, determination are 5,500 buses, she said. “Our people is to rise the fig of buses to 7,500 by the extremity of this twelvemonth and further summation to 11,000 successful the adjacent 2 years,” the CM said.
