The Sheila Dikshit government on Monday received a pat on the back from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

The allocation for transport has been increased by nearly Rs 900 crore in this year's budget.

With a clear aim to give a fillip to the Capital's public transport system before the Commonwealth Games, the government has given the largest allocation of funds to the transport sector.

International firm Air Products will fuel London's planned fleet of hydrogen buses in a

The fate of 15 CNG buses, which had arrived at the Karachi port over seven months ago, hangs in the balance as the transport company plans to challenge a government notification describing the buses

The transport department of Delhi put 50 low -floor -high capacity buses on five-km -trial run in the high corridor today from Ambedkar Nagar.

The government will launch a pilot project on the public-private partnership basis for improving the public transport system of Karachi in June this year.

The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) which has taken up mass transport system projects like Metro rail, Mono Rail, BRT etc will soon get one more partner for its ongoing developmental projects - BEST Undertaking. According to the new proposal, the BEST is going to provide its prime spaces in the city on equity participation. Though the proposal is still in an initial stage, this step is going to help the BEST Undertaking in the long run. Talking to FPJ, General Manager (GM) of the Undertaking, Uttamrao Khobragade said after working on the modalities we took this decision. The city is going to see a sea change in transportation as the MMRDA has taken up some important project for city commuters.'

To revamp the transport scenario ahead of the Commonwealth Games in 2010, the Delhi Government will introduce 10,000 new buses -- including modern low-floor ones -- within two years and as many as 20 per cent of them would be air-conditioned to bring more personal vehicle users on to the public transport network, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said on Tuesday. Speaking at the foundation stone laying ceremony of Asiad Village Community Centre, Ms. Dikshit said Delhi would also become self-sufficient in power by 2010. The foundation stone of the gas-based 1,500 MW power plant at Bawana would be laid by the Prime Minister on March 24, she announced. Pointing out that consumption of power had been increasing by 9 per cent to 10 per cent per annum, she said efforts were being made to increase availability of power. Claiming that power theft had declined from 52 per cent to 28 per cent, Ms. Dikshit also stressed the need for power and water conservation to meet the rising demand. The Chief Minister also made a note of the water crisis in the Capital, saying while the Government had worked hard to get the Sonia Vihar water treatment plant commissioned, it had been facing difficulty in getting raw water for it from the neighbouring States.