New Delhi: el Comptroller and general auditor (Cag) has declared that Delhi Transport CorporationThe accumulated cumulative losses shot out of RS 25.3 billion rupees in 2015-16 to almost 60 rupees in 2021-22, since it was weighed decreasing by the fleet, with 45% of the buses that exceed and are prone to high levels of Desglosse, what resulted in the pair under the use of the fleet.
In the report for a long time, it is expected that the new BJP government will be presented on Tuesday, the auditor indicated multiple failures, including the inability of the transport company to increase its fleet, sources told Toi. This is the first of 14 reports that the AAP government had refused to share in the assembly.
The main reason for the losses was that DTC rates remained unchanged since 2009, the sources said, and the Delhi government refused to pay attention to multiple applications. The load increased even more as women received free bus walks. The auditor also pointed out the absence of any business plan and there was no road map to verify bleeding and guaranteeing its Financial viabilitySources said that they have seen the report.
The fleet of the skeletal DTC, with broken buses part of the daily experience of the travelers, became a political problem, with BJP and the congress that they repeatedly spoke of AAP, Arvind Kejriwal, the 2015 promise to increase the fleet by 10,000.
CAG indicates poor route planning by DTC
In 2007, Delhi’s Superior Court had ordered DTC to have a fleet of 11,000 buses. However, five years later, the Delhi cabinet set the number of 5,500. He CAG report You learn to point out that at the end of March 2022, DTC had a fleet of 3,937 buses, of which 1,770 were in excess. Low floor buses were over 10 years old and had to eliminate at the end of next month.
Although there was a shortage of 1,740 buses, except the addition of 300 buses in 2022, the acquisition was not performed despite the fact that RS 233 million rupees was available. He did not take advantage of the central assistance of another 49 million rupees under the FAME-I scheme, which CAG attributed to indecision and lack of clarity about the specifications. A delay in the end of 300 electric buses under fame-II resulted in the reduction of the contract period of 12 to 10 years.
An aging fleet meant that DTC could not achieve Operational efficiency compared to the national average. In addition, the breakdowns ranged between 2.9 and 4.5 for every 10,000 km of operations, which was considered very high compared to other state transport corporations, as well as cluster buses administered by private operators with contract.
Cag said that the performance of cluster buses was much better than that of the DTC fleet in each operational parameter, although both operated in similar circumstances.
The Federal Auditor also criticized DTC for poor route planning with the state profit operating in 468 routes or 57% of the total of 814 routes. “The corporation could not recover its operational cost on any of the routes operated by it. As a result, it suffered losses of RS 14,199 million rupees in operations during 2015-22,” said a source.
While the losses shot, the Delhi government provided a revenue subsidy of RS 13,381 million rupees between 2015 and 2022, which left a gap of RS 818 million rupees. In addition, DTC did not sign a MOU with the Department of Transportation of Delhi establishing physical and financial objectives.
In addition, it is known that CAG has stopped DTC so as not to implement a automatic rate collection system and have a CCTV surveillance system that remained incomplete even nine years after the project began.