The National Green Tribunal (NGT) lambasted the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) on Saturday for not maintaining its buses properly and running them without passengers for a major part of the day.
“Your buses create so much noise on the road. They are a great nuisance. Most of parts of your buses are either hanging in air or broken. Why don’t you take proper steps for their maintenanceIJ Either your buses run empty or they are over-loaded,” a Bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar observed.
The tribunal rapped the DTC chairman-cum-managing director for not taking note of an NGT order on maintenance of buses and carrying out a rationalisation study so that the vehicles can be used more effectively.
“Have you read our judgementIJ You have served 33 years in your department and we are shocked you have not got the time to go through our orders. How surprising,” the bench said.
The green panel had earlier favoured small-size buses during lean traffic period and said, “You should change your buses when traffic is lean and ply buses which are smaller in size. We are not asking you to stop the bus service rather you should change the size of bus.”