Fund allocation for the sector - 20-25% on average - has been consistently high, though. While Rs 3,372 crore was set aside in 2012, this year the amount was Rs 3,876 crore. Yet, the projects are running late with some being dropped altogether. We take a look at some of the projects that have fallen by the wayside.
Digitization
In 2002, the government had decided to allocate Rs 827 lakh for digitization of records. Only 34 vehicles were registered in Delhi and the brief was simple: establishment of a wide area network (WAN) to connect all zonal authorities, two sub-offices and National Crime Records Bureau with a host computer at the department's headquarters. In 2010, this project was revived. But over a decade later, the project is not complete. Worse still, there is no data integration between traffic police and the department.
In the past few years, Rs 100-150 lakh has been allocated for computerization of records. Close to 1 lakh auto permits, including the recent ones, and 50,000-odd commercial permits have been issued, with the exception of taxis. The city, however, has over 73 lakh registered vehicles. That most drivers operate without valid licences is evident in the number of PSV badges issued, which comes to 86,566 (including DTC cluster buses, autorickshaws and Gramin Sewas among others). After the Nirbhaya gang rape, 5,294 drivers without PSV badges were booked. Of the 3,134 booked by traffic police, 3,235 were auto drivers, 608 taxi drivers and 157 chartered bus drivers. About 25 Gramin Sewa vehicles were also caught.
Without proper digitization, it is difficult to pin down rule violators. Challans issued by both the transport department and traffic police often don't reach the correct addresses, as data is never updated. Also, digitization cannot be fully utilized without the provision of e-payment of challans and taxes.
Computerization will include registration of commercial vehicles on a smart card, e-payment of permit/composition fee, online payment of road tax, various fees, fines and data retrieval linking with Delhi online portal, and networking of all zonal offices, the VIU (vehicle inspection unit) and ARU (autorickshaw unit) with the department headquarters. PSV driver badges will also be issued on smart cards.
DTC fleet modernization
Since 2010, the government has been talking about modernizing the aging DTC fleet by replacing the standard-floor buses with low and semi-low-floor buses. Around 2,000 of the 6,000 buses have been identified for scrapping. Every year, budgetary allocations have been made, accompanied by talk of purchasing low and semi-low-floor buses - funds from JNNURM as well as from the government's own coffers are available on paper. Yet, the dearth of resources for the corporatization of the public bus service has meant that DTC continues to use its old fleet to meet the city's demands. Frequent breakdowns and poor maintenance affect the bus service and frequency.
Privatization of buses
When the bus cluster scheme was launched in 2011, the government claimed it would get 11,000 buses to meet the city's transport needs, 60% of which would be part of the private bus cluster scheme and the rest would be met by DTC buses. In 2012, however, the erstwhile transport minister Arvinder Singh decided to change the ratio of cluster buses to 60-40, with DTC supplying the majority of buses. About 1,000 cluster buses were supposed to ply by December 2012 but the chief minister cited a lack of depot space in her 2013 speech. Only 500-odd buses have been made operational.
Enforcement
Manpower continues to be a problem. Even after the Nirbhaya case exposed lapses of the transport department, enforcement remains lax. A senior transport department official said, "We have 30 teams working in shifts, but sustained drives are not possible as 120 enforcement officials cannot keep a check on 60 lakh vehicles." Transport minister Ramakant Goswami had said that government was planning to increase the wing's strength to at least 1,000, but no one has been recruited.
GPS in autorickshaws
The project of installing GPS in autos within three months of the December 16 incident is yet to take off. While the new autos come equipped with GPS-based fare meters, the older ones are still to get the device. The auto unions remain opposed to the project. Moreover, the back-end operations, being managed by DIMTS, are yet to be shared with police, though talks are on. Also, drivers tampering with the GPS device have not been reined in. Goswami had said a drive to install GPS in commercial vehicles like Gramin Sewa would be launched "soon". The GPS was originally a permit condition for the Gramin Sewa service but that was never implemented.
PIS/ E-ticketing
The project was introduced during the Commonwealth Games when the government announced that new passenger information services (PIS) would be introduced in bus queue shelters. These PIS would give information on the schedule, route and timings of the buses at the stops. Funds were allocated for the project in 2011, with an aim to also include voice announcement systems inside buses besides e-ticketing. It remains on paper.
Monorail
A pilot monorail project was announced in east Delhi in 2012. The alignment is to go from Shastri Park to Trilokpuri. The project has been stuck for some time with several questions being raised about the alignment and cost by the finance department. The monorail, which will go through congested areas like Geeta Colony, Gandhi Nagar, Kailash Colony, Jheel Khurenji, Khureji Khas, Pandav Nagar and other neighbouring localities, will be the first such project in the country. Government officials say the DPR aims to wrap up by 2017 if work starts this year. The entire alignment for the monorail will be elevated and alongside roads that are mostly narrow.
Delhi Metro
As work on Phase III of Delhi Metro is carried out, the project emerges as the government's showpiece. Covering a large part of the city, Phase III will connect the existing network with far-flung areas like Mukundpur, Badli, Faridabad, Shiv Vihar and Kalindi Kunj. Two new lines are being constructed while two corridors are being extended.
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