Commonwealth Games gift: World's biggest bus depot in Delhi

ONE OF best gifts Delhi got from the Commonwealth Games is Delhi Transport Corporation’s (DTC’s) Millennium Park Bus Depot which may find its name in the Guinness Book of Records. The facility is located next to the Games Village, spread over a sprawling 60-acre-plot, along the western banks of Yamuna has the capacity to house 1,000 buses, which will provide buses to athletes, delegates and media persons during the 10-day sporting extravaganza. The capacity of this depot is 10 times more than normal DTC depot.

The Millennium Park Depot has overtaken the record of the Central Bus Station, which is located in Tel Aviv (Israel) that spread over 57 acres, housed 800 buses at one time.

This DTC depot has unique facilities to repair 65 buses at a time and 10 compressed natural gas (CNG) filling pumps fitted in two CNG stations which can fuel buses twice as fast as the normal ones. There are three gates opening into three sides of Delhi – East, South and North Delhi. This depot built by Public Works Department (PWD) in less than one year at the cost of Rs 61 crore, has a logistics centre to track movement of buses.

The bus depot has five bus parking-cum-scanning centres, eight washing pits, four huge water tanks for washing buses, two separate tanks for fire reserve and drinking water, seven dormitories, where 500 persons can stay.

In this depot Delhi police have also set up a cargo scanner and command centre especially for the Commonwealth Games and it is equipped with 37 close circuit TVs. After the Games it will be used as a normal DTC bus depot. Thanks to the Commonwealth Games!

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