India, Aug. 6 -- The Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta on Tuesday announced the return of the iconic U-Special buses - the signature green-and-yellow fleet that once defined college life for generations of Delhi University (DU) students. The revamped buses, which were discontinued in March 2020 during the Covid-19 lockdown, will now return with air-conditioning, music systems and other upgrades to cater to the city's student commuters, the CM said.

Gupta, a DU alumna herself, made the announcement at the inauguration of a new academic block at Social Centre School in Maurice Nagar. "We used to spend so much time on that bus - it was our own space, one that no one else could enter," Gupta recalled. "Today, I am restarting the Youth Special...