India, July 18 -- Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta on Thursday announced that the government will replace the current pink ticket system with pink cards, allowing only women residents of the city to get free and unlimited bus rides.

The pink cards' limitations will mark a major shift in eligibility criteria for the scheme because currently all women - irrespective of which state they belong to - are allowed free bus rides in all Delhi government buses.

"We will provide pink cards for the women of Delhi. The need to get the pink tickets time and again can be done away with. It will also help the government make payments (of subsidies) against the actual number of travels undertaken by women, leaving no scope of corruption," said the CM w...