NEW DELHI, Oct. 12 -- The feeder bus services in the national Capital will get more comfortable soon, as the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has decided to introduce 'Air Conditioned (AC) electric midi buses' for feeder services. Tender for procuring, operating and maintaining 100 AC e-feeder buses has been floated for North and East Delhi to provide better last mile connectivity as well as to curb pollution.
Also, the AC electric buses will be coming for first time under DMRC. Currently, DMRC have a fleet of around 269 buses (non ac) to provide better last mile connectivity.
According to sources, the Delhi Metro's plan was to procure around 420 electric and CNG feeder buses, for which tender was also floated in 2018 but it did not re...