What are some interesting known facts about the Delhi Transport Corporation ?

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In 1948, the Indian government took over the then inadequate bus service operator, Gwalior and Northern India Transport Company Ltd, and renamed it as Delhi Transport Service.

Delhi Road Transport Authority was formed under the Road Transport Corporation Act, 1950.

It became part of MCD in 1958 as Delhi Transport Undertaking.

Finally, in 1971, control of DTU was transferred to the local state government.

Today, the DTC bus service is the largest CNG-powered bus services in the world.

It employs around 18,000 people.

A DTC conductor tears off the ticket at two places: One, at the point where you board, and, two, your destination point.

The orange coloured buses are not operated by DTC.

You will have to go to the conductor to get a ticket in a DTC bus.

The DTC fleet operates Tata Marcopolo buses. Tata Marcopolo is a JV between Tata Motors of India and Marcopolo S.A. of Brazil.

The red colour bus is fully air-conditioned, while the green one is non-AC.

A three- or four-digit number at the top centre of a DTC bus ticket indicates the route number of the bus.

The Delhi-Lahore bus service is operated by DTC in India.

The DTC also operates the Delhi-Kathmandu bus service.

An in-house magazine called ‘Dipani Patrika’ is published by the DTC.

DTC has 77 properties spread across Delhi. Most of them are terminals or depots.

Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) is the main public transport operator of Delhi. It is one of the largest CNG-powered bus service operator in the world

The Delhi Transport Corporation was incorporated in May 1948 by the Indian government for local bus services when they found out the incumbent service provider Gwalior and Northern India Transport Company Ltd. was inadequate in serving the purpose. It was then named "Delhi Transport Service"

It was again constituted as "Delhi Road Transport Authority" under the Road Transport Corporation Act, 1950. This Authority became an undertaking of Municipal Corporation of Delhi by an Act of Parliament in April, 1958

.In 1971, on a recommendation from the Indian government took over the assets and liabilities from the erstwhile Delhi Transport Undertaking (DTU) operated by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi until 2 November 1971.

.Delhi Transport Corporation which was under administrative control of the Indian government was transferred to the Government of National Capital Territory, Delhi..

Delhi Transport Corporation operates on many routes in Delhi and neighbouring States. The mofussil buses operate around 46 depots out of which 18 depots are of old DTC buses and rest have low floor buses while the inter-state buses operate from the Three Inter State Bus Terminals in Kashmiri Gate, Sarai Kale Khan and Anand Vihar.

Delhi Transport Corporation services in Delhi has vastly distributed network of bus services. It connects almost every part of Delhi with this network of buses. The most Prominent of these being the Mudrika and the Bahri Mudrika Seva services interconnecting all parts of the city with a great frequency of buses until approximately 10:30 p.m.

Delhi Transport Corporation has started High Capacity Bus Service on a few routes and work is in progress to develop more high capacity bus routes. This service uses buses with improved carrying capacity and better facilities like air-conditioning, less travel time, less congestion, more comfortable interiors, GPS navigation etc