Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri says Delhi 'almost unliveable,' blames public transport system

Delhi is almost "unlivable", Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri today said, underlining that people buying cars could not be blamed for congestion in the city as it lacked a better public transport system.

In a veiled attack on the AAP government in the national capital, he said a shortage of public buses in the city was a "criminal negligence".

He also denounced the Delhi government for the delay in the Delhi Metro's Phase IV and the Delhi-Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System project.

"Delhi is almost unlivable... The city is short of 7,000 buses... This is not a shortage but a criminal negligence," he said at an event here.

Puri said people buying cars cannot be blamed for congestion in the city as it lacked a "better public transport system".

"Delhi has the fourth largest metro network in the world. We have a decision on Phase IV pending for three years. We have RRTS corridors pending for two years," he said.

All stakeholders should act swiftly to make Delhi "livable again", he added.