City gets new batch of low-floor buses after nearly 10 years

Delhi on Friday got a batch of 100 new low-floor high capacity buses, nearly a decade after these were first introduced in the national capital during the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

The buses were flagged off by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal from the Rajghat Depot here and he said within the next one year, 9,000 buses will be plying on Delhi's roads.

The tender for electric buses has also been passed and these will be procured by the end of March, he said at the event which was also attended by Delhi Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot and senior officers of the department.

"Hundreds of new buses have been flagged off in the last few months, and I have been told that low-floor buses have been deployed on the roads of Delhi after a span of 10 years," the chief minister said.

On the attacks by opposition parties BJP and Congress during the recently-held assembly polls on the state of transport facilities in the city, Kejriwal said "some people would say buses were flagged off due to elections, but I want to tell them that the buses are being deployed even after the elections."