Delhi HC: Why is no one bidding for DTC tenders

New Delhi: The Delhi high court on Monday asked Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) as to why no one was bidding for its tender to procure low floor buses for the national capital and opined that the fault may be at its end.

“Why is it no one, even global players do not want to bid for Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) tender for low floor buses? The fault may be at your end,” a bench of acting chief justice Gita Mittal and justice C Hari Shankar said.

The court also said it will “not permit anything to be done which would keep a large population out of or away from public transportation”.

It was hearing two PILs challenging separate tenders issued last year and in March this year to procure standard floor buses for the national capital on the grounds that they were not disabled-friendly.

The court’s observatio-ns came after DTC said that in the past it has not received bids, which were affordable when it floated tenders for procuring low floor buses.