Demanding a "white paper" on financial discrepancies in Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC), Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party President Manoj Tiwari said wrong policies of erstwhile Sheila Dikshit's Congress Government and the current Arvind Kejriwal's Government have led to almost total collapse of the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC).
"It is sad that the Kejriwal Government is again trying to mislead the people of Delhi by claiming to make DTC a world class body," adding," the financial and other issues of DTC are in a state where no improvement is possible with ordinary steps as being thought by the AAP Government in Delhi," said Tiwari.
"While the need for on road buses has risen to 11,000 during past six years neither Dikshit's nor Kejriwal's Government have made any effort to raise the fleet of DTC Buses except for making hollow announcements of buying more buses," he added.
The actor turned politician said that even if Kejriwal Government buys 2,000 buses over next 2 years in January 2020 when Delhi goes in for assembly polls Delhi would be having hardly 3000 working buses on road as by then two third of existing fleet would get shelved. "Almost entire revenue generated by DTC goes into payments of interest on loans taken but Kejriwal Government like its predecessor is not inclined to bail out the body with loan waiver or atleast interest waiver," he added further.
"Almost 30 DTC bus terminals out of total of 43 are now within urban city limits but neither the State Government nor the corporation itself has tried to tie up with any commercial or charitable organisation to make its prime properties revenue generator," Tiwari reacted.
"With the mandatory implementation of 7th Pay Commission recommendations on staff salary soon the body with around 33,000 employees is going to go bankrupt and no one knows what preparation has Kejriwal Government made for this," he said. "It is really strange how a body with total monopoly of on-road public transport running some 36,000 trips on 574 routes continues to remain in losses," he reacted.