LG, CM set to inaugurate 400 e-buses

Ahead of the G20 Summit in the Capital in the second week of September, lieutenant governor VK Saxena and chief minister Arvind Kejriwal will jointly induct 400 new e-buses to the fleet of the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) from the Indraprastha Depot on September 5, officials aware of the development said

- Alok KN Mishra

This will be the second time in a month that the LG and the chief minister will share a stage, after they inaugurated the waste-to-art themed Shaheedi Park on Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg on August 8 

To be sure, the inauguration of the buses comes a little over a month after several of the 200 e-buses inducted in July reported breakdowns, prompting the government to flag the issue with the manufacturing company.

With the addition of these new 400 buses the largest single induction of e-buses DTC's fleet of electric buses now swells to over 800, transport department officials said.