#Delhi BJP to request Lt. Governor to order #CBI Probe into ruining of D.T.C. by Kejriwal Govt.

Delhi BJP to request Lt. Governor to order CBI Probe into ruining of D.T.C. by Kejriwal Govt.

KEJRIWAL GOVERNMENT’s MAL INTENTIONS HAVE BROUGHT D.T.C. TO A COLLAPSE POINT WITH A LOSS OF OVER 3 CRORES PER DAY EVEN AS GOVT. CONTINUES TO FOOL THE PEOPLE WITH PROMISES OF NEW BUSES ITS FRAMED TENDERS ENSURE THAT CITY MOVES TOWARDS PRIVATISATION OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT

No Work On PASSENGER INFORMATION SYSTEM Makes Amply Clear That Kejriwal Govt. Is In No Mood To Run Public Transport Henceforth – Satish Upadhyay

Like the Aam Aadmi Clinics this Aam Aadmi Bus Sewa too is a political gimmick.
New Delhi, 7th August. Delhi BJP President Sh. Satish Upadhyay has said that Arvind Kejriwal Government has on one hand fooled the people of Delhi with repeated announcements of expanding Delhi Transport Corporation network and on the other hand it has ruined D.T.C. affairs to an extent so as to make D.T.C. a fit case for winding up.

Shri Upadhyay has said that thrice we have heard Delhi Government announcing addition to the fleet of D.T.C. but not a single bus has been added and now we hear a new gimmick in the name of Aam Aadmi Bus Sewa. We wish to ask Delhi Government where are the buses for this new sewa, all that would be done is that some buses from the existing routes will be withdrawn and deployed on the new routes. Like the Aam Aadmi Clinics this Aam Aadmi Bus Sewa too is a political gimmick.

Sh. Upadhyay said Kejriwal Government’s systematic manipulations to throttle D.T.C. are with intent to hand over Delhi’s public transport system to private operators and this needs to be probed.

Sh. Upadhyay has said be it in his election manifesto or in his first budget CM Kejriwal promised to run 10000 D.T.C. buses on Delhi roads but 17 months later we find not a single new bus has been added to D.T.C.’s fleet on road. Despite tall claims of bringing additional buses truth is that around 1000 D.T.C. buses have gone off road during Kejriwal’s regime and today D.T.C. is incurring a loss of over Rs. 3 Crores Per Day.

Shri Upadhyay said When CM Kejriwal came to power D.T.C. suffered average operational loss of Rs. 40 per km but today it has risen to Rs. 65 per km.

D.T.C. is suffering a heavy trip loss due to operation on non profitable Inter State Routes and breakdowns of its buses. It is believed the breakdowns are manipulated ones and D.T.C. withdrew itself from several profitable city routes handing them over to Cluster Operators. Till January 2015 D.T.C.’s average monthly breakdowns stood at 600 but by the end of 2015 they rose to 800 a month.

Delhi Government’s mishandling of public transport policy has resulted in even Private Cluster Service Operators running away. Over 250 Orange Cluster Buses too have gone off Delhi roads now.

Kejriwal Government has made repeated announcements of bringing additional buses, dreams of bringing thousands of buses have been sold but in truth Government has no intent to bring new buses as it actually wants to hand over the public transport system to private operators.

The conditions imposed in tenders brought thrice since Kejriwal Government came to power have ensured none of the eligible companies participate in the bids. It is believed that these tenders have been wrongly framed so as to achieve the ultimate goal of handing over road transport to private operators and the haste shown in bringing in App Based Premium Bus Service is one of the many conclusive evidence of Kejriwal Government’s mal-intention.

Even C.A.G. in its reports has castigated Delhi Government & D.T.C. Management for turning the biggest CNG public carrier into a white elephant.

No effort to start work on a long announced GPRS managed Passenger Information System through D.I.M.T.S. by Kejriwal Government is a ultimate indicator of the fact that the CM & his Government have no intent to run the public transport system of the city or to upgrade it.

Similarly, the dreams sold of bringing bus marshals & wi-fi in D.T.C. buses too have not been implemented.

D.T.C. employees too have their problems and grievances and strangely Kejriwal Government is ignoring them too.

It appears Kejriwal Government intends to ruin & windup D.T.C. BJP leaders will soon meet the Lt. Governor and request him to order a C.B.I. inquiry into the criminal mismanagement & manipulation of D.T.C. affairs by Kejriwal Government leading to extraordinary heavy losses during last 17 months. The haste with which Kejriwal Government tried to introduce an unregulated App based Premium Bus Service too should be a part of C.B.I. inquest.

Shri Upadhyay said that Kejriwal Government constantly abuses & curses the Central Government but fails to take any inspiration from the Centre which has worked hard to turn the loss making national air carrier Air India into a profitable venture and curbed the operational losses of the largest public sector undertaking Indian Railways to the minimum.