About 2,000 Home Guard volunteers have reported to the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) in line with a Delhi government initiative that looks to improve safety and security of those travelling in buses, especially women commuters, the public transporter said in a statement on Friday.
At present, the DTC operates 4,705 buses in two shifts, which require an estimated 10,000 Home Guards if one guard is deployed in each bus.
Different beats
Accordingly, the DTC said, it had deployed these guards in different beats, at important bus terminals and bus queue shelters along with its own supervisory staff. “It has been observed that generally there are ticket-less travellers who create problems for bona fide passengers, especially women commuters. Accordingly, in the night shift during which we operate about 96 buses on various routes, a guard each has been provided in these buses since December 27, 2012,” said a DTC official.
Meanwhile, with an objective of plugging revenue leakage due to ticket-less travelling, a mass checking drive was executed by the public transporter for two hours between 8 and 10 a.m. on Friday.
Officers including Regional Managers and Depot Managers, the DTC said in a statement, were deployed on 38 different points during the drive during which 78 passengers were found to be travelling without tickets in the North region.Friday’s drive, a DTC official said, came in the wake of a similar one conducted in the East and SBU regions on June 26 and subsequently in the West region on July 9.
