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Indian flights to Varanasi, Khajuraho

Bangalore: Indian is launching new flights to Khajuraho and Varanasi from Delhi from September 15, 2006. The airline has also scheduled a daily flight on the Varanasi-Kathmandu route. The carrier has increased the frequency of operations on several routes such as Chennai-Bangalore, Delhi-Raipur-Vizag-Chennai, Chennai-Bhubaneshwar, Kolkata-Agartala, Kolkata-Silchar and Silchar-lmphal.

RITES: Common ticket for Delhi Metro and DTC

In a move to decongest the busy commercial area before the 2010 Commonwealth Games, the Rail India Technical and Economic Services (RITES) has suggested common ticket for both bus and Metro while visiting Connaught Place. The proposal also includes modification of bus routes to serve them as feeders for the Metro system and a shuttle service linking the Metro entry and exit points and parking points along the inner circle of CP with the bus stops on the Outer Circle. currently there are 450 DTC buses, playing on 88 routes, making 11,900 daily trips through Connaught Place. This sheer volume of bus traffic causes significant congestion and traffic conflicts in the area. With two Metro lines, Barakham-ba-Dwarka and Delhi University-Central Secretariat, passing through CP, RITES has suggested that many of the existing bus routes could be diverted away from CP’s outer circle.

The study suggests that wherever multiple routes overlap with the Metro service, the buses could be modified to terminate at a Metro station to serve as feeder. It also suggests that the existing bus routes can be diverted to roads with sufficient spare capacity to handle the additional bus traffic.