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Delhi government will soon float a global tender for procurement of 1,725 low-floor buses for the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC).
Officials in the Transport department said the global tender for procuring buses will be issued shortly as all the specifications for the vehicles have been finalised.
Transport officials said the first batch of the buses is likely to ply on Delhi roads by September. The new fleet,which will cost around Rs 400 crore,is being procured to further augment the public transport system in the city.
The new buses are being procured to replace the DTCs old fleet. Buses in the old fleet have completed their prescribed mileage of 5 lakh km.
Currently,DTC has old 1,742 buses. The proposal to buy the buses has already been cleared by the Delhi Cabinet. We will soon float the global tender to procure the buses, an official said.
The addition of the new fleet will take the number of low-floor DTC buses to 5,506 from 3,781. The official said the supplier of the vehicles will have to carry out maintenance work for the buses up to 7.5 lakh km or 12 years of operations,whichever is later.
The government plans to increase the number of buses under the DTC to 11,000,including buses under the cluster service,within the next couple of years. Around 340 buses are plying under the cluster service run by private entities.
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