New Delhi: Lack of land for depots is holding back Delhi Integrated Multi-Model Transit System (DIMTS) to press into service more cluster buses for the convenience of commuters in the national capital.
"We have several concessionaires who want to run their buses under cluster scheme, but as government has not provided land to us for constructing depots, we are now not adding more buses to fleet," a senior DIMTS official said.
Presently, there is a demand of 11,000 buses in Delhi and as per an agreement between DTC and DIMTS, both have to run 5,500 buses each in the national capital.
DTC currently operates around 5200 buses, while DIMTS has only 1,157 buses - 4,343 less than required number of 5,500 buses.
DIMTS officials said that their clusters buses are presently parked in 10 depots, including some sharing depots with DTC. The officials said DIMTS was ready to run more cluster buses for facilitating commuters in the national capital, but the Delhi Government has failed to provide land for depots despite several requests for it.
DIMTS, which is currently running buses in nine clusters, has to run buses in 17 clusters as per the agreement.
