The low-floor DTC buses are extensively used for movement of police and paramilitary personnel for deployment in various parts of Delhi.
Police used tear gas on groups of farmers and resorted to baton charge as protestors broke past barricades with tractors at different border points and did not take the pre-decided routes for their march in the national capital.
Delhi Transport Corporation bus ran into the boundary wall of NITI Aayog building late last night. The driver was admitted to a hospital.
As the Delhi government on Monday issued guidelines for 'Unlock 1.0', it maintained status quo for restaurants, permitted to operate kitchens for home delivery and takeaway of food items, and DTC with not more than 20 passengers at a time.
With passengers stranded at New Delhi Railway station amid the lockdown, the Delhi Police on Wednesday said such people can now avail DTC buses for their onward journey from the station.
Last year when the Delhi government appointed 13,000 marshals in public buses it ensured to keep a check on incidents of eve-teasing and violence against women, however, the security personnel weren't provided any means for their own safety.
The announcement by Kejriwal at an event here, comes a day ahead of the roll out of the AAP government's scheme to make travel free of cost for women in Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) buses.
Four men were injured when a speeding DTC bus rammed into three two-wheelers in West Delhi's Hari Nagar area on Saturday evening.
One of the passengers recorded the incident on his mobile phone, but no one present in the bus came forward to help the boy. Even the DTC staff present on the bus failed to report the incident to the authorities.
The approval was given in a meeting of Delhi Cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. The scheme will begin from October 29, Delhi Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot said.
According to the government data, till March 2019, the total functional buses in Delhi were 5,576 -- 3,897 DTC buses and 1,679 cluster buses. The orange buses are operated under the cluster scheme, which was introduced in 2011 to replace the erstwhile blue line buses.
As per reports, the staff of Hari Nagar Depot stopped the bus near Janakpuri on July 12 where the girl, reportedly their friend danced in front of them.
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The crackdown comes a day after the police impounded 1,174 auto rickshaws and tempos plying illegally in Noida and Greater Noida.
The Delhi government and the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) agreed to authorise the Metro smart card as common mobility card for paying fares in DTC and cluster buses.
The transport department in the past had been providing free bus rides to women visiting their brothers in different parts of the city to tie Rakhi on the festival. If the members of the organisation went on mass leave, DTC services may be affected.
Initially planned for the Delhi Secretariat bus stop on Vikas Marg, such maps will be added to other bus shelters soon.
A DTC bus driver, accused of crushing a man under its wheels over 11 years ago, has been acquitted by a Delhi court which held the passenger responsible for his fate.
AAP government in Delhi will install CCTV cameras and panic buttons in over 6000 DTC and cluster buses.
The Delhi government has neither bought any new bus over the last two years nor does it have any plans to buy any, the state assembly was informed today. "In the last two years, Delhi
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