Delhi to get 12 new bus depots

April 11, 2016 12:00 am | Updated 07:04 am IST - NEW DELHI:

NEW DELHI, 11/05/2015: Buses parked at GTK bus depot as DTC drivers were on strike over the murder of a colleague, in New Delhi on Monday, May 11, 2015. 
Photo: Sushil Kumar Verma

NEW DELHI, 11/05/2015: Buses parked at GTK bus depot as DTC drivers were on strike over the murder of a colleague, in New Delhi on Monday, May 11, 2015. Photo: Sushil Kumar Verma

Delhi Transport Minister Gopal Rai said on Saturday that the Delhi government plans to set up 12 new bus depots in different parts of the city. Mr. Rai made the announcement while laying the foundation stone for a new terminus at Dhichaun Kalan in South-West Delhi.

The bus depots will be built and maintained by the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC).

The upcoming bus depot at Dhichaun Kalan is coming up in an area of five acres and a boundary wall has already come up around the site for the depot.

The cluster bus depot is located on the Najafgarh-Nangloi road near the Dhichaun Kalan village. The bus depot will be able to accommodate nearly 120 buses.

Apart from Dhichaun Kalan, the other bus depots will come up at Rewla Khanpur (four acre), Kharkhari Nahar (five acre), Dwarka Sector 22 (10 acre), two at Rani Kheda (six acre each), Bawana Sector 1 (four acre), Bawana Sector 5 (five acre), East Vinod Nagar (five acre), Narela (10 acre), etc.

Mr. Rai said that with DTC planning to induct more buses soon, these bus depots would help in accommodating them and people of Delhi would get much better bus services. Dhichau Kalan bus depot, with a parking space of 17,500 square metre, will be completed at a cost of Rs. 12.37 crore in the next nine months, the minister said.

The bus depot would have the facility of CNG refuelling for buses. The depot is also going to be built keeping in mind provisions of a green building.

The depot will see major use of fly ash bricks, a sewage treatment plant and rain water harvesting facilities.

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