Delhi, Bangalore Witness High Vehicle Density

Bangalore: The number of vehicles is on the increase in India. Delhi has witnessed the maximum registration of vehicles in 2011 and in this year till November, while number of vehicles in Bangalore is fast increasing as per data. Delhi recorded for 4.76 lakh vehicle registrations in 2011, and has 3.99 lakh vehicles registration till November this year. Contrastingly, Bangalore observed a huge jump from 2.72 lakh vehicle registrations last year to 3.28 lakh in the past 11 months, reported Dipak Kumar Dash for TNN.

It is noted that availability of IT jobs in Bangalore and Hyderabad seem to have a direct impact on the increase of private vehicles in these cities. In the past two years Bangalore has emerged as next only to Delhi in terms of annual vehicle registration while Hyderabad recorded a gigantic increase in this category in the same time period.

A similar trend was seen in the city of Hyderabad, it witnessed an increase of at least 14,000 vehicle registrations from last year, taking its total to 46,163. A senior road transport and highways ministry official was quoted saying to TOI "Young people with handsome earnings from the IT industry are shifting to these two cities, you will find most of them buying a vehicle within months after coming here. This trend will continue for the next couple of years. In Bangalore, you have long jams because of the high vehicular growth."

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