Bus fires send Delhi government into tizzy
December 3rd, 2009 - 1:29 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) Concerned over the spurt of fire incidents in the newly inducted low floor buses, Delhi government officials will Thursday meet the representatives of the manufacturing company Tata Motors Ltd.
A fire was reported in a low floor bus at Moti Nagar in North Delhi early Thursday.
“The main agenda at the meeting will be to find out the reasons behind the incident,” a Delhi government official said Thursday.
The meeting was called following a fire incident in a low floor bus Wednesday evening. Though nobody was injured, the incident was the third of its kind in a week.
The incidents have been a setback for the Delhi government’s plan to phase out the fleet of privately-owned Blueline buses before the Commonwealth Games next year and replace them with 3,500 low-floor CNG-fuelled buses.
Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) has 3,559 buses, including 631 non-AC and 25 AC low-floor buses and 2,903 standard-floor buses. The entire fleet of the state-run DTC is fuelled by compressed natural gas (CNG).
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- Tata Motors rapped for low-floor buses' fire accidents - Dec 16, 2009
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- Two low floor DTC buses catch fire, government orders inquiry (Roundup) - Dec 12, 2009
- More Bluelines going out, private low-floors being introduced - Dec 28, 2010
- CWG makeover? DTC back to plying old buses (Year after CWG) - Oct 01, 2011
- Delhi to add 4,000 buses to tide over Blueline phaseout - Jan 13, 2011
- Another DTC bus catches fire, depot manager suspended (Lead) - Dec 24, 2009
- DTC bus catches fire, passengers safe - Jan 09, 2010
- 500 more low-floor buses to ply on Delhi roads - Sep 29, 2010
- Trial begins in Delhi of first CNG-powered Volvo city bus - Jun 03, 2011
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