Route no. 375(Dilshad Garden-Nehru Place) connects Dilshad Garden to important commercial/governmet offices/colleges in the city the areas Laxmi Nagar, ITO, Supreme Court, Patiala House, Shajahan Road, Khan Market, Dayal Singh College, JLN Stadium, Kotla Mubarakpur/SouthExtn, Andrews Ganj, LSR College. Blue Line and DTC buses combined together are supposed to run at 8minutes freuqency in peak hours. The route is to be catered by 6 DTC buses(doing 24trips eitherside) and 19 Bluelines.
Before January, 2005
The situation was relatively satisfactory till 2005 January. The DTC buses has disappeared totally from this route from Jan, 2005 (the route till then operated by Hasanpur depot was transfered to Seemapuri depot in Jn, 2005).
Present Situation
The situation has been worsened by the Govt policy of removing old Bluelines. At present out of 19 bluelines only 10 Blue lines(DL 1PA-7707, DL- 1PA7819, DL 1PA 7943, DL1PB-114, DL1PB-116, DL1PB-761, DL1PB-825, DL1PB-1954 DL1PB-3728 and DL1PB-5265) are running in this route. Of this except for 3 Blue Lines(DL 1PA-7707, DL- 1PA7819 & DL 1PA 7943), all others are bunking one trip from either side there by reducing the availability of buses in this route. The DTC which should be running 24 trips in either direction is just running one trip in the morning towards NehruPlace(which is also not regular).
In the morning peak hours(7.30-10.00) the situation is pathetic. The timing of Blue Line buses between 7.30 to 10.00 from Dilshad Garden are at 7.50, 8.06, 8.22, 8.30, 8.46 and 9.18. But few operators are so erratic that you can't depend on them. Eg the 8.22 bus(DL1PB-761) goes early at 8.15, 8.46(DL1PB-5265) at their convenience from 8.35 to8.50) and the 9.18 bus(DL1PB-1954) which is the last bus in the peak hour goes at 8.55. On few days a DTC bus(irregular service) runs at 9.10.If it is not available no buses are available for more than an hour. The situation is far more grim in the evening peak time(17.30-20.00). Only 5 trips of Bluelines available from Nehru Place side between 17.30 1nd 20.00hrs). DTC does not even run one trip for name sake. Between 20.00hrs and 22.20(suppose to be time of last bus from Nehru place) there are only 2 trips.
Solution to the problem
The Blue Lines should be instructed to strictly follow their time-table and complete all the trips.
The Delhi Transport Corporation should be instructed to run all the trips allotted to it at least in the morning and evening peak hours.Additionally DTC should be given permit to run buses in route no.375, in place of 9 Blue Lines which are removed due to government actions. There are three DTC depots(Dilshad Garden, Seemapuri & Nand Nagari) within 3km from Dilshad Garden terminal and another three DTC depots(Srinivas puri, Sukhdev Vihar and Kalkaji) with in 3Km from Nehru Place Terml. DTC may utilise buses in these depots to run services on route no.375 with a minumum decent frequency to alleviate the hardship faced by thousands of residents (including students, govt/private employees, senior citizens) of Dilshad Garden and adjoining areas depending on route no. 375 .
Aug 14, 2020
Complaint marked as Resolved
My name is Kishore Pirwani. I would like to bring your kind attention on the problem being faced by resident and visitors of nirmal sagar bldg, giri kunj, giri vihar, satguru sadan and adjoining locality of nimbkar society gate no. 2 ,opp NES International School, off Malbar Hill RD, Mulund colony,mulund west, Mumbai(BMC 'T' WARD) . Sir there are some street dogs in this vicinty sir they bark on everybody residing nearby and every visitors, because of these dogs it has become very difficult to take step out from our houses round the clock. I have seen and faced this situation where these dogs barks on us and come closer to bite, several person have faced the same problem especially small children of the society are very scared to go out of the houses.
So this is my humble request to you to please pay attention on my letter and send Dog catcher team immediately in this area so that we will get rid of this problem soon.
Thanking you.
Your's faithfully
Kishore Pirwani