1001 Smart Cities

Permanent project revision

DTC Electric Bus Fleet & DEVi Feeder Service

Revision 2026-08-28-baseline · effective 2026-07-26

Current revision. This is the snapshot used by the live entity page.

unreviewed

Created the first structured Evidence Passport with 11 claims and 8 source dossiers.

sha256:c94ce2390b6507c47350c9521ed638ed54ba9a229982dca9527d14ae35c99f27
All revisions → Current entity page →

Change set

  • add /evidencePassport — Added claim-level evidence mapping and source dossiers.
  • add /revisionHistory — Established a permanent, hash-addressed baseline revision.
11
of 11 claims mapped
8
source dossiers
8
publication dates recorded
0
archives linked
0
exact locators
0
content captures hashed

Claims, one by one

The text below is copied verbatim from the published record. Each claim names the source dossiers that carry it; caveats stay attached to the claim they qualify.

Claim 1 clm-168fde1d8ee19deb quantitative
Delhi Transport Corporation ran its first electric bus in January 2022
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The Week, carrying the PTI wire of 17 January 2022: the first e-bus in the DTC fleet was flagged off on route E-44 from the Indraprastha depot, the first of a batch of 300, and no new bus had been procured by DTC since 2011.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. The Week / PTI — DTC's first electric bus flagged off (17 Jan 2022)
Claim 2 clm-552141242b99d5f3 quantitative
had 4,538 of roughly 6,300 buses electric by April 2026
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
electrive, 20 April 2026: of about 6,300 DTC buses, 4,538 are electric and 1,759 run on CNG.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. electrive — Delhi Transport Corporation flags off 200 electric buses (20 Apr 2026)
Claim 3 clm-59e19d53ca69c1c5 quantitative
procured under 12-year gross cost contracts in which private operators own, run and maintain the vehicles while DTC pays per kilometre
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
Motor India on the CESL Grand Challenge order: Tata Motors will supply, operate and maintain air-conditioned low-floor 12-metre electric buses for 12 years under the contract — the supplier keeps the asset and the operating duty rather than selling the buses to the city.
Caveat
The per-kilometre payment is the standing form of a gross cost contract; the sources describe the supply-operate-maintain duty and the twelve-year term, not the tariff itself, which has not been published.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Motor India — Tata Motors bags DTC order for 1,500 e-buses under CESL tender (22 Jul 2022)
Claim 4 clm-1e634dcca23637f9 quantitative
Since May 2025 the 9-metre DEVi feeder service has linked narrow residential streets to metro stations and bus terminals
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
Prasar Bharati's state broadcaster: 400 DEVi buses — the Delhi Electric Vehicle Interconnector — flagged off on 2 May 2025 for last-mile links between bus terminals and metro stations. ETV Bharat: the buses are nine metres long, reach narrow residential streets, run routes of up to 12 km, and 30 are operated by DTC with 370 by DIMTS.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Prasar Bharati News on Air — 400 DEVi e-buses flagged off (2 May 2025)
  2. ETV Bharat — Inside Delhi's DEVi electric bus (2 May 2025)
Claim 5 clm-132e79eaeb363146 quantitative
Only 80 of 148 planned DEVi routes were running in May 2026, at headways of 20 to 30 minutes against a 5 to 10 minute design target
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
ThePrint's ground report of 26 May 2026: out of 148 new routes, DEVi buses are only on 80, and the average frequency according to DTC is 20-30 minutes against the intended five to ten.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. ThePrint ground report — Delhi's DEVi buses can revolutionise neighbourhood mobility. Fix frequency first (26 May 2026)
Claim 6 clm-26d5fc6a5dce2720 quantitative
4,538 of DTC's roughly 6,300 buses were electric by April 2026, up from a single electric bus in January 2022; 1,759 of the rest run on CNG
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
electrive gives the April 2026 composition — 4,538 electric and 1,759 CNG of about 6,300 — and the PTI wire dates the first single electric bus to 17 January 2022.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. electrive — Delhi Transport Corporation flags off 200 electric buses (20 Apr 2026)
  2. The Week / PTI — DTC's first electric bus flagged off (17 Jan 2022)
Claim 7 clm-0853cd34b591b9d5 quantitative
in the decade to 2021-22 the corporation inducted two buses in total and its fleet fell from 4,344 to 3,937, against a September 2007 High Court direction to reach 11,000 by March 2009
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
ThePrint on the Comptroller and Auditor General's performance audit: DTC inducted only two buses between 2011-12 and 2021-22; the fleet declined from 4,344 buses in 2015-16 to 3,937 by 2022-23; and in September 2007 the Delhi High Court had directed the government to raise the city bus fleet to 11,000 by March 2009.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. ThePrint — DTC inducted just 2 buses in the decade between FY12 and FY22, shows CAG report (27 Mar 2025)
Claim 8 clm-918ffce9884d66b9 quantitative
80 of 148 planned DEVi routes were running in May 2026, at headways of 20 to 30 minutes against a 5 to 10 minute design target, and DTC's managing director says the overall number of commuters has not substantially increased since it launched
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
ThePrint's ground report: 80 of 148 routes served, a DTC-stated average frequency of 20-30 minutes against a five-to-ten-minute intent, and managing director Jitendra Yadav saying the overall number of commuters using DTC is the same, with no substantial increase since the DEVi buses launched.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. ThePrint ground report — Delhi's DEVi buses can revolutionise neighbourhood mobility. Fix frequency first (26 May 2026)
Claim 9 clm-d07bf50b4058856d quantitative
The corporation that put two buses on the road in the decade to 2021-22, while its accumulated losses grew from 25,299.87 crore rupees in 2015-16 to 60,741.03 crore
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The same audit reporting: two buses inducted between 2011-12 and 2021-22, and accumulated losses rising from Rs 25,299.87 crore in 2015-16 to Rs 60,741.03 crore in 2021-22.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. ThePrint — DTC inducted just 2 buses in the decade between FY12 and FY22, shows CAG report (27 Mar 2025)
Claim 10 clm-c2d414d460ad5122 descriptive
private operators own, run and maintain the vehicles under twelve-year contracts and the corporation pays them by the kilometre
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
Motor India: under the CESL Grand Challenge contract the manufacturer supplies, operates and maintains the buses for twelve years — the arrangement the entry describes, in which the city buys running kilometres rather than vehicles.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Motor India — Tata Motors bags DTC order for 1,500 e-buses under CESL tender (22 Jul 2022)
Claim 11 clm-591da2e3db94439b quantitative
The feeder routes were designed from commuter and transport data by IIT Delhi, and the nine-metre buses do reach streets a twelve-metre bus cannot — but they come every 20 to 30 minutes instead of every five to ten, and by the corporation's own account ridership has not moved
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
ThePrint: IIT Delhi used commuter and transport data to design the DEVi routes; the average frequency is 20-30 minutes against a five-to-ten-minute target; and the managing director says commuter numbers are unchanged. ETV Bharat describes the nine-metre buses reaching narrow residential streets that main-road services do not serve.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. ThePrint ground report — Delhi's DEVi buses can revolutionise neighbourhood mobility. Fix frequency first (26 May 2026)
  2. ETV Bharat — Inside Delhi's DEVi electric bus (2 May 2025)

Source dossiers and revision state

This layer records what is known about each source, what is still missing, and the exact snapshot this page is rendering. A missing date, archive or hash stays visible as missing.

unreviewed Revision 2026-08-28-baseline effective 2026-07-26 · created 2026-08-27

Awaiting operator and domain-expert review; publication of this revision implies neither.

Erratum on this revision's envelope. The snapshot, its hash and its permanent link are untouched.

  • createdAt previously read 2026-08-28T02:40:00Z. The batching script that produced this revision advanced createdAt into the future to satisfy the strictly-increasing order the validator requires per entity. The value never recorded a real event; the corrected value is the moment the revision provably existed in the repository. Corrected to 2026-08-27T00:50:50Z on 2026-08-27; evidence: first appears in commit c7e9ec4201, committed 2026-08-27T00:50:50Z.
sha256:c94ce2390b6507c47350c9521ed638ed54ba9a229982dca9527d14ae35c99f27
Revision history → Permanent version link → Machine-readable record → Evidence Constitution →
11
of 11 claims mapped
8
source dossiers
8
publication dates recorded
0
archives linked
0
exact locators
0
content captures hashed

Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC), with buses supplied, operated and maintained by private operators under gross cost contracts; DIMTS operates most of the DEVi feeder fleet
Actor types
utility, private
Funding model
ppp
Funding description
Not recorded
Cost
Not recorded
Ownership
Not recorded
Decision rights
Not recorded
Exit conditions
Not recorded

8 source dossiers

The Week / PTI — DTC's first electric bus flagged off (17 Jan 2022) theweek.in · 2 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-5267f9882fa6e0b9
Publisher
Name not classified · theweek.in
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2022-01-17
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-26
Dossier created
2026-08-28
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Start date: first DTC e-bus on route E-44 from Indraprastha depot; DTC's first new bus procurement since 2011.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Motor India — Tata Motors bags DTC order for 1,500 e-buses under CESL tender (22 Jul 2022) motorindiaonline.in · 2 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-e58566502131c338
Publisher
Name not classified · motorindiaonline.in
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2022-07-22
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-26
Dossier created
2026-08-28
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Procurement model: supply, operate and maintain 1,500 AC low-floor 12 m buses for 12 years under the CESL Grand Challenge tender — a gross cost contract, not a city purchase.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Prasar Bharati News on Air — 400 DEVi e-buses flagged off (2 May 2025) newsonair.gov.in · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-58a4cb747c6ddd6d
Publisher
Name not classified · newsonair.gov.in
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2025-05-02
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-26
Dossier created
2026-08-28
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

State broadcaster: DEVi is the Delhi Electric Vehicle Interconnector; 400 buses for last-mile links between bus terminals and metro stations.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
ETV Bharat — Inside Delhi's DEVi electric bus (2 May 2025) etvbharat.com · 2 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-8aeee331dfc5d85f
Publisher
Name not classified · etvbharat.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2025-05-02
Updated
2025-05-03
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-26
Dossier created
2026-08-28
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

DEVi specifics: 9 m buses, 30 operated by DTC and 370 by DIMTS, trips up to 12 km, fares 10-25 rupees.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
ThePrint — Delhi gets 500 new electric buses, DTC EV fleet crosses 4,000 (8 Feb 2026) theprint.in · background

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-75f9e99c4a2727c7
Publisher
Name not classified · theprint.in
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2026-02-08
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-26
Dossier created
2026-08-28
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Milestone of 4,000+ e-buses; also the source of the Chief Minister's 'largest e-bus fleet in the country' claim, which is a political statement and is deliberately not used in this entry.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Background source; no baseline claim points here
electrive — Delhi Transport Corporation flags off 200 electric buses (20 Apr 2026) electrive.com · 2 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-21c083785bf10350
Publisher
Name not classified · electrive.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2026-04-20
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-26
Dossier created
2026-08-28
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Fleet composition (4,538 electric of about 6,300 DTC buses), size mix, and the East Vinod Nagar depot charging station (30 points, 240 kW).

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
ThePrint — DTC inducted just 2 buses in the decade between FY12 and FY22, shows CAG report (27 Mar 2025) theprint.in · 2 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-6d89c16cb182b5e9
Publisher
Name not classified · theprint.in
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2025-03-27
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-26
Dossier created
2026-08-28
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Counterweight: CAG performance audit; the fleet fell from 4,344 to 3,937 buses, against a September 2007 Delhi High Court direction to reach 11,000 by March 2009.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
ThePrint ground report — Delhi's DEVi buses can revolutionise neighbourhood mobility. Fix frequency first (26 May 2026) theprint.in · 3 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-8968f1d78f6b99fc
Publisher
Name not classified · theprint.in
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2026-05-26
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-26
Dossier created
2026-08-28
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Counterweight: 80 of 148 IIT-Delhi-designed DEVi routes operational, headways of 20-30 minutes against a 5-10 minute design target, DTC daily ridership broadly flat over five years.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Known limits of this passport
  • Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
  • Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
  • A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
  • The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.