New Delhi: Nearly two years after the global pandemic was caused by the coronavirus, the feeder bus service of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation is yet to fully resume in the national capital. DMRC has constituted a committee to resolve its financial issue with private bus operators so that the service of a fleet of 174 feeder buses can be started at the earliest to provide last-mile connectivity to passengers.
Prior to the announcement of the nationwide lockdown in March 2020, the DMRC, through private bus operators, provided last-mile connectivity between residential areas and metro stations on 34 routes. But since August last year, the service is available only on three routes and that too by electric feeder buses, which were introduced by DMRC. However, the passengers said they wanted the entire service back. Especially now that all business activities, offices and schools have resumed.
The Metro had resumed train operations in September 2020, five months after the first lockdown, but the feeder service was not resumed. In fact, bus operators had asked the DMRC for viability gap funding to compensate for the economic losses incurred during this period.
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