Jam-bred wastage
Rs 10 crore worth fuel wasted every day

Rs 1.5 crore
subsidy lost to exchequer

1.6 litres
fuel lost to jam by each vehicle daily

The Capital’s choked roads not only raise blood pressure of commuters but are also a drain on the state’s exchequer. A recent study says stuck in traffic jams, each commuter in Delhi loses 90 minutes every day on an average and vehicles in all waste an of 30 lakh litres of fuel each day.

The figures come from a study by city NGO ‘Centre for Transforming India’.

The report calculates fuel wasted due to traffic jams every day at Rs 10 crore, resulting in a subsidy loss of approximately Rs 1.5 crore to the state exchequer. Every day.

Breaking down the fuel waste, the study reckons each vehicle wastes an average of 1.6 litres of fuel — 2.5 litres for four-wheelers, and 0.75 litres for two-wheelers.

And these come from only one-third of approximately 65 lakh registered cars in Delhi, for only a little more than 20 lakh ply on Delhi’s road on any given day, as per the study. It excludes vehicles registered in neighbouring areas of Noida, Gurgaon and Ghaziabad.

The study also shows the lacunae in public transport system: it says full-size low-floor buses in Delhi can only seat 37 people, while similar buses in Durban, South Africa, can seat 65. “Looking at the volume of commuters, we should focus more on large-capacity buses rather than costly and fancy ones, especially when we have examples to learn from,” says Pankaj Sharma, chief trustee of the NGO.

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