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  Delhi Transport Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Delhi Transport Corporation which was under administrative control of the Indian government was transferred to the Government of National Capital Territory, Delhi.
Transportation in Delhi is under-going a vast change with the entry of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation.
DTC has been helping Metro Rail to connect Delhi City better by operating new bus routes connecting commuters in areas surrounding the metro stations for a better city experience.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Delhi_Transport_Corporation   (545 words)

  
 Delhi sultanate - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Delhi sultanate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It saw Delhi become the political capital of northern India, the building of a chain of garrison towns, and the establishment of an immigrant Muslim nobility.
The final ruler, Ibrahim Lodi (reigned 1517–26), attempted to centralize authority, provoking the governor of Punjab to invite Babur, the Mogul chief of Kabul, to invade India.
However, the sultanate was faced constantly with the danger of internal rebellion and the breakaway of both its Hindu tributaries and Muslim provincial nobility, which eventually led to its demise.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Delhi+Sultanate   (279 words)

  
 DTC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC), the transportation backbone of Delhi.
The Depository Trust Corporation, a division of the USA clearing house DTCC.
DTC is also the stock symbol of Domtar Incorporated on the New York Stock Exchange
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/DTC   (241 words)

  
 Indiainfo.com -> India -> Delhi-Lahore bus service to resume on July 11
DTC said it had received a formal communication from the Central government for resuming the twice- weekly service after a gap of over 18 months.
Delhi government and state-run DTC throughout maintained that they were ready to resume the service as they had spruced up the two golden-coloured buses and the terminal from where all passengers would board and arrive.
DTC even carried out a trial run of the two buses till Pipli on July 2 to test the efficacy of the recently replaced parts, including air condition, gears and clutches.
news.indiainfo.com /2003/07/05/05bus.html   (498 words)

  
 Delhi
Also Delhi is the headquarters of the Northern Railway and is the most well connected railhead both on the broad gauge (New Delhi) and meter gauge (Delhi Main) railway line.
Delhi is the intersection of several national highways and is well connected by regular bus services from the Inter State Bus Terminal (ISBT and known in Hindi as Bus'adda) at Kashmiri Gate.
Delhi Transport Corporation runs a large fleet of buses operating in the entire city.
www.indiatravelite.com /newdelhi/deltpt1.htm   (639 words)

  
 The Hindu : New Delhi News : Fitness scam involving Blueline buses unearthed
According to sources in the Delhi Government, during the recent annual fitness tests at the newly installed automatic inspection lane at Burari, the officials much to their disbelief found the Blueline buses that were being put to speed test were running at speeds between 60 kmph to 100 kmph in gross violation of the norms.
Out of the total of 250 buses and a large number of local transport trucks tested at the Burari site till recently, a majority of them had removed their speed governors and were running in violation of the law prescribed for their plying on road.
Transport Minister Haroon Yusuf said he had taken a serious note of the bungling at the Burari facility and had issued instructions to all concerned that no vehicle that fails to comply with the prescribed norms be allowed to ply on city roads.
www.hindu.com /2006/02/25/stories/2006022513330400.htm   (635 words)

  
 PROVISION OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT SERVICES
The security deposit is liable to be forfeited at the discretion of Chairman-cum-M.D., DTC or any other officer authorized by him by special or general order in the event of unilateral withdrawal of the bys by the registered owner without due notice as provided in Clause 4 of the agreement.
DTC will be liable for any police challan against the conductor for overloading, scuffle case and cases of such nature in which the conductor may be exposed in normal performance on his duty.
In the event of second fatal accident by the P.O. bus under DTC K.M. Scheme, a fine of Rs.10,000/- would be imposed on the owner of the P.O. bus besides suspending the operation for a period of 15 days from the date of accident.
www.asrtu.org /dtc.htm   (2859 words)

  
 India - City guide - Delhi- Traveld
Delhi is the main gateway city for northern India with a modern airport.
Delhi is the hub of the Indian Railways network with Express trains to all parts of the country.
Five National Highways pass through Delhi and the most important of these are the Grand Trunk Road (National Highway 1) from Amritsar in the north, Mathura Road from Agra in the south, National Highway 2 from Calcutta in the east, and Gurgaon Road (National Highway 8) from Jaipur in the west.
www.webindia123.com /city/delhi/getting.html?cat=Travel   (506 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
New Delhi, June 13: The two buses that plied between Delhi and Lahore are being overhauled as a technical team from Pakistan is expected here on June 18 to discuss the resumption of the service from July 1.
Delhi transport minister Ajay Maken today said the team from Pakistan Transport Development Corporation will talk with their counterparts in the Delhi Transport Corporation.
The condition of the buses deteriorated as the Delhi transport department was using them on inter-state routes all these months.
www.telegraphindia.com /1030614/asp/nation/story_2067324.asp   (262 words)

  
 Delhi Transport Corporation : An Overview
A Delhi Road Transport Authority was constituted under the Road Transport Corporation Act, 1950.
On the recommendation of a Working Group of Planning Commission which concluded that Delhi Transport as an extension of Municipal Corporation of Delhi had not been functioning efficiently and adequately resulting in leakage of revenue and very high operation cost, Govt.
DTC which was functioning under the administrative control of Govt.
dtc.nic.in   (364 words)

  
 31st March, 2000 Press Release -- Centre for Science and environment (CSE)
Even as the deadline of the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) for converting its 1,842 buses to compressed natural gas (CNG) expires today, the apex court was in no mood to pardon the DTC for failing miserably to meet its deadlines.
Such pleas from DTC that this would cause hardship to the public were swept aside by the bench on the ground that the gap could be filled by the private bus owners or by diverting inter-state buses to city roads.
DTC tried to do mischief by demanding that Euro II diesel buses using diesel with sulphur content of 0.05 per cent be allowed to be treated as a suitable alternative to CNG.
www.cseindia.org /html/au/au4_20000331.htm   (1013 words)

  
 More diesel buses pay fines and ply- The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
new delhi: the transport situation improved on thursday when over 2,000 diesel bus owners returned to delhi roads after paying the fine of rs 500 a day imposed by the supreme court for not converting to compressed natural gas (cng).
the delhi state government under the congress is all set to issue 1,500 fresh permits to new cng buses.
delhi transport minister ajay maken said these permits would be issued as soon as the transport department had distributed the first round of 1,025 permits and allotted routes to private bus owners.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/msid-6600082,prtpage-1.cms   (506 words)

  
 CPI(ML)targets Metro, Blueline buses in Capital; Kochi's Cardinal leaves for Vatican; J and K bank opens counter at LoC ...
New Delhi: The Communist Party of India (Marxist- Leninist) on Monday accused the Delhi Government of adopting an anti-people transport policy and called for the closure of all Blueline buses and termination of the ongoing Metro rail project.
The Union Ministry of Transport took over the local bus services in Delhi in May 1948 in the name of Delhi Transport Service when they found that the services offered by the Gwalior and Northern India Transport Company Ltd., the then licensee, were inadequate.
Delhi has a population of about 12 million and is, perhaps, the only city of its size in the world, which depends almost entirely on buses on it sole mode of mass transport.
www.indiatraveltimes.com /news/news2005/apr05/apr0405_news.html   (1402 words)

  
 Bus re-launch on July 11, Pak gives visa to DTC crew   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
New Delhi: Pakistan has granted visas to seven crew members of Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC), setting in motion the process of re-launch of the Delhi-Lahore bus service after 18 months amid indications that the first vehicles would begin plying on July 11.
Significantly, the issuance of visas to the DTC crew members, all drivers, coincided with the arrival of Pakistan's new High Commissioner Aziz Ahmed Khan to New Delhi.
DTC is also waiting for a communication from the External Affairs Ministry to start booking of passengers for Lahore.
news.indiainfo.com /2003/07/01/01bus.html   (319 words)

  
 Peace buses deliver loved ones
The Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation bus, carrying 28 passengers including six journalists, rolled into the Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar terminus at Delhi Gate at around 2000 IST after covering a distance of 527km.
Delhi Transport Corporation Chairman Amarjeet Singh Sahaney was pleased that the bus left Delhi without any problem.
A resident of Uttam Nagar in west Delhi, Singh was pleased that he had been selected to take the bus out of Delhi.
www.rediff.com /news/2003/jul/11bus2.htm?zcc=rl   (688 words)

  
 Government of Delhi : Government Departments : Delhi Transport Corporation : Services in Delhi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The introduction of this Bus Service by DTC is a part of providing an efficient, comfortable, reliable, economical and properly coordinated bus services to the commuters of Delhi and adjoining states.
DTC Bus has facility of mobile phone, which can be; used by any passenger and the bill is to be paid by the user in the bus.
DTC is doing advance booking for the PTDC bus and its own bus at Delhi and accordingly PTDC is also making the similar arrangements at Hotel Faletti's Lahore.
delhigovt.nic.in /newdelhi/dept/transport/dt3.asp   (1313 words)

  
 Delhi Transport Corporation : Services in Delhi
DTC issues Green Card daily which is valid for traveling in all DTC City bus services except Palam Coach and Tourist services through out the day.
DTC issues passes to student, general public, police, resident of resettlement colonies, etc. The details of various types of concessional passes issued by DTC for city service is given below:
People are aware that the number of registered vehicles in Delhi is more than the sum total of vehicles in Delhi is more than the sum total of vehicles registered in Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore.
dtc.nic.in /dt3.htm   (892 words)

  
 Netguruindia News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
June 4: The Delhi government is actively considering the proposal to have a Metropolitan Transport Authority to deal with the Capital's increasing transport problems.
While the Transport Department was to deal exclusively with issuing of licences and registration of vehicles, the traffic police would have to perform the role of law-enforcing agency and maintaining traffic.
Transport minister said they want that the unified authority should be headed by either by the CM or the transport minister.
www.netguruindia.com /news/Jun01/05/DEL7.html   (317 words)

  
 PCQuest : Best IT Implementation oF The Year 2004 : TOP 10 IT IMPLEMENTATIONS OF THE YEAR
Anyone who has traveled in a DTC bus knows that the buses often do not show up on time and do not stop at designated bus stops, while the drivers are notorious for over speeding.
In fact, the biggest issue that DTC faced was getting the GIS map of Delhi; it took them a year to develop it.
DTC plans to extend it to the vehicles of other government departments, such as the fire and police departments.
www.pcquest.com /content/implementation/2004/804061001.asp   (523 words)

  
 Delhi blasts: Cops release sketches of suspect - NDTV.com - News on Delhi blasts: Cops release sketches of suspect
Delhi blasts: Cops release sketches of suspect - NDTV.com - News on Delhi blasts: Cops release sketches of suspect
The three sketches are based on eyewitnesses' description of a man who allegedly planted a bag containing a bomb on a Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) bus in Govindpuri.
Delhi police say the Lashkar-E-Taiba is a suspect in Saturday's bombings, though the Pakistan-based group has denied links.
www.ndtv.com /template/template.asp?fromtimeline=true&id=18090&callid=0&template=delhiblasts   (267 words)

  
 Special training for Delhi transport staff
Delhi government would soon start a special training programme for the staff of state-run Delhi Transport Corporation to sensitise them on detection of explosives and suspicious passengers.
Transport Minister Haroon Yusuf told PTI on Thursday that the programme entails educating drivers and conductors regarding the precautionary measures that need to be take to prevent bomb explosions on buses.
The transport department had earlier conducted such a programme nearly two years back, when there was a blast incident in a DTC bus near Delhi Indian Institute of Technology.
www.rediff.com /news/2005/nov/03dblast3.htm   (179 words)

  
 The Hindu : New Delhi News : Volvo buses to roll on inter-State routes
Under this option, he said, the buses would be provided by the company on a per-kilometre basis for which the DTC will have to pay around Rs 14 per km plus the cost of diesel utilised in the operation.
It was their operation in Rajasthan which had attracted the Delhi Government to the idea of introducing them in Delhi.
But that has not happened despite the fact that the Delhi Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit, had pressed for the induction of these ultra-modern buses in the Delhi Transport Corporation fleet for running them between Delhi and Lahore and had even taken a test ride on a Volvo bus last year.
www.hindu.com /2004/04/09/stories/2004040908210400.htm   (442 words)

  
 Misra Commission Report
The Delhi Transport Corporation owns thousands of buses which are plied on different routes.
In this back drop, the Corporation was called upon to produce the records of November 1, 2 and 3, 1984.
There is no material to hold that the corporation has extended any assistance to the rioters by allowing its buses to transport the rioters.
www.carnage84.com /official/misra/8.htm   (326 words)

  
 Clean Air Initiative: Infopool - CNG Buses in Delhi
Due to the rapid increase in vehicle kilometers driven and the poor technical conditions of the vehicles, the load of ambient air with automobile pollutants is extremely high.
According to a study issued by the Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi, which was carried out by an international consultant team, until March 2001 about 275 CNG buses, 12,000 CNG taxis and cars and 13,500 CNG three-wheelers were on the road (1) by that time.
As 2002 came to a close, however, all diesel buses in Delhi have been converted to CNG and air pollution levels are noticeably down.
www.cleanairnet.org /infopool/1411/propertyvalue-19513.html   (1303 words)

  
 Internation Conference on Reliability and Survival Analysis
Delhi has one international airport and there are three main train stations in Delhi: (1) Delhi (Old Delhi), (2) New Delhi, and (3)Hazrat Nizamuddin.
Delhi Transport Corporation Bus: There are no direct buses from Delhi Station to ISI.
Delhi Transport Corporation Bus: There are no direct buses from New Delhi station to ISI.
www.isid.ac.in /~statmath/generalinfo/reaching_isidelhi.html   (473 words)

  
 outlookindia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
New Delhi, Apr 28 (PTI) Uncertainity prevailed in the capital over an impending transport crisis in the national capital after a steep hike in the CNG even as the Delhi Government would be meeting tomorrow to discuss the fall out of the move.
Delhi's Transport Minister Ajay Maken, while admitting that the fare would have to be increased, said that the Cabinet would be meeting tomorrow to discuss the isue besides asking the Centre to roll-back the steep hike.
Indicating of an imminent fare hike, he said the Delhi Transport Corporation was facing a loss of Rs one crore every month.
www.outlookindia.com /pti_print.asp?id=54759   (263 words)

  
 NetguruIndia Delhi Regional News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
May 5:The Delhi Government is back again with one more panel of officials from government, non government organisations and environment experts to monitor the pollution levels in the capital.
Consequences are that the Delhi Medical Student's Association has demanded that the University should increase the number of seats for the post graduate courses to fit in the Delhi students.
May 5: The Delhi Finance ministry have decided to be strict with the different government agencies like Delhi Transport Corporation, Delhi Vidyut Board and Delhi Jal Board.
www.netguruindia.com /news/May00/del06May00.html   (1945 words)

  
 Ministry of Tourism, Government of India Celebrates Visit India Year 1999-2000 : Getting There : Delhi
Delhi is the base for Indian Airlines operations in North India and the airline connects the city with all major centres of tourist and business interest in the country.
Delhi is serviced by two lines, broad and meter gauge and has three major railway stations, Delhi Main (receives both broad and meter gauge trains), New Delhi and Hazrat Nizamuddin.
Delhi Main Railways Station is 6 km from Downtown, New Delhi is about 1 km and Nizamuddin 5 km.
www.tourisminindia.com /indiainfo/cityguide/delhi/getting.htm   (754 words)

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