Delhi almost unliveable, shortage of buses criminal negligence: Puri

Delhi is almost "unlivable", Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri today said, underlining that people buying cars could not be blamed for congestion in the city as it lacked a better public transport system.
In a veiled attack on the AAP government in the national capital, he said a shortage of public buses in the city was a "criminal negligence".
He also denounced the Delhi government for the delay in the Delhi Metro's Phase IV and the Delhi-Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System project.
"Delhi is almost unlivable... The city is short of 7,000 buses... This is not a shortage but a criminal negligence," he said at an event here.

Puri said people buying cars cannot be blamed for congestion in the city as it lacked a "better public transport system".
"Delhi has the fourth largest metro network in the world. We have a decision on Phase IV pending for three years. We have RRTS corridors pending for two years," he said.
All stakeholders should act swiftly to make Delhi "livable again", he added.