Zeenews Bureau
New Delhi: Concerned over the spurt of fire incidents in the newly inducted low floor buses, the Delhi Government on Thursday decided to constitute a high level investigating committee to probe into the matter.
Tata Motors has been asked to give new buses and a mobile engineer will be posted at every depot. About the fire that was reported in a low floor bus at Moti Nagar in North Delhi early today, the govt said that it was due to the presence of oil in brake shoe and not due to CNG kit.
The meeting was called following a fire incident in a low floor bus Wednesday evening. Though nobody was injured, the incident was the third of its kind in a week.
The incidents have been a setback for the Delhi government's plan to phase out the fleet of privately-owned Blueline buses before the Commonwealth Games next year and replace them with 3,500 low-floor CNG-fuelled buses.
Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) has 3,559 buses, including 631 non-AC and 25 AC low-floor buses and 2,903 standard-floor buses. The entire fleet of the state-run DTC is fuelled by compressed natural gas (CNG).
First Published: Thursday, December 03, 2009, 19:14