The budget also announced development of Outer Ring Road as 'Signal Free Road' with the construction of flyovers, road under bridges (RUBs) and partly elevated road section between Vikaspuri and Wazirabad in the current fiscal involving a cost of about Rs 2,400 crore.
Presenting the 2012-13 budget, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, who holds the Finance portfolio, said the transport sector will be allotted Rs 3,372 crore which is 22 per cent of the total plan outlay.
Commenting on the erstwhile Municipal Corporation of Delhi, Dikshit said that it could not maintain its road network and the government took over 512 roads of 60 feet and above width having a total length of 645 kilometres.
"Now PWD will maintain and improve the condition of all such roads. Budgetary provision of Rs 250 crore has been made in the current financial year for the purpose," she said.
Proposing to purchase 600 more new low floor buses to replace the old DTC buses, she said, "DTC has 2,000 old buses which we are planning to replace in phases."
The budget said that the number of cluster buses will be increased from 265 to 1,000 by the end of this fiscal.
More From This Section
"We have decided to replace all Blueline buses by the Corporate Sector Bus Operator System (cluster buses)," she said, adding that the Delhi government got the National Award for the 'Best PPP Initiative in Urban Transport' for introduction of this scheme.
With a view to improve the Multi-Modal Public Transport System, the Budget announced the ambitious first Mono Rail Corridor Project in the Trans Yamuna area. It will be developed by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation.
Talking about Delhi Metro, she said that the longest Metro project from Mukundpur to Yamuna Vihar in Phase-III will connect a large number of presently unconnected localities. (More)