Uttarakhand Chief Secretary directs transport dept to boost weekend bus frequency to Delhi

Uttarakhand chief secretary Radha Raturi, who held a meeting with the officials of the transport department on Tuesday, has directed the Uttarakhand Transport Department to work on a short-term action plan and increase the number of the rounds of roadways buses to Delhi, especially increasing the frequency of buses on weekends. For this, she has also given instructions to coordinate with the UP.

The state administration is worried over inconvenience caused to the public due to the ban on the entry of old model buses of Uttarakhand Transport Corporation in Delhi. Recently, all the state buses, except electronic buses, CNG buses, and BS VI diesel buses, have been prohibited from entering Delhi due to the pollution.

According to a press release, chief secretary Raturi has directed the Secretary Transport to hold talks at the appropriate level today itself on the decision of the proposal to purchase 175 buses. She also directed the officials concerned to start the operation of CNG buses purchased by the Corporation recently. The tender process for the purchase of 100 CNG buses has been completed and 30 buses have been received.


To provide immediate relief to the public, she directed the Transport Department to talk to Uttar Pradesh for the operation of Uttarakhand Transport Corporation buses to Ghaziabad’s Mohan Nagar as well as Kaushambi. Buses fulfilling the standards of pollution control will directly enter Delhi. Normal buses will be able to go to Delhi border Mohan Nagar and Kaushambi.

At the meeting, the Uttarakhand Transport Corporation said that before the ban on old model diesel buses due to pollution in Delhi, 504 services of Roadways used to operate daily on Delhi route. Now only 310 buses fulfilling pollution control standards are operating. 194 buses have been banned. Before the ban, the load factor of Roadways buses was about 40 percent, which has now increased from 90 to 100 percent due to increase in frequency of bus services.

Passengers going to Delhi are not facing any kind of special inconvenience. The Chief Secretary has given instructions to clarify the misleading information in this regard.