Senior citizens to have reserved seats in low-floor DTC buses

Senior citizens in the city will no longer have to jostle for a seat in the swanky low-floor DTC buses as government has decided to reserve some seats for them.

Transport minister Arvinder Singh Lovely said the low-floor DTC buses will soon have seats reserved for the senior citizens.

At present, each low-floor bus has four reserved seats only for women. The general DTC buses have two reserved seats for the senior citizens.

The DTC, which runs the world's largest fleet of CNG buses, have been procuring low-floor buses as part of its efforts to modernise programme.

Officials said during next year's Commonwealth Games, the DTC will have a fleet of 5,000 low-floor buses.

Lovely also said the government will set up water treatment plants at ten depots of DTC.

He said the water used for cleaning the low-floor buses in these depots is hard in nature and damaging the colour of the buses.

"So we have decided to set up water treatment plants in these depots," he said.