Complete decongestion of 77 corridors within three months: Delhi L-G

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Complete decongestion of 77 corridors within three months: Delhi L-G

Wednesday, 06 July 2022 | Staff Reporter | NEW DELHI

Delhi Lieutenant Governor, Vinai Kumar Saxena has issued strict instructions to all agencies to ensure completion of all pending tasks related to decongestion of 77 corridors within three months. The direction has been issued to Public Welfare Department (PWD), Forest Department, Home Department, Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) and Delhi Development Authority (DDA).

Sources said that Lt Governor was informed that most of the work related to removal of electric poles and power transformers have been pending since 2019. Sources revealed that of the pending 119 tasks, 58 were required to be acted upon by the PWD.

Tasks such as removal of trees at eight places, jhuggis at seven places and religious structures at seventeen places and minor tasks such as replacement of power transformers and poles and five tasks related to non-availability of adequate parking outside banquet halls were inordinately delaying decongestion on important stretches including Mehrauli-Gurgaon road, Mehrauli-Badarpur road, Ring Road (Vijay Nagar to Burari Chowk) and Loni Road (from Shahdara GT Road to Loni Border) among others.

 “The L-G expressed concern that such petty, innocuous works were getting embroiled in a red-tape exchange of letters between different departments,” said the sources.

While expressing grave displeasure on the pending delays in removal of identified religious structures, jhuggis and trees, the L-G has asked the concerned officials to ensure completion of tasks within a set timeline and to avoid using Court orders as alibis and excuses for non-performance.

He has also asked the Chief Secretary to ensure inter-departmental co-ordination and completion of work within the time-frame. The LG issued instructions that any ongoing activity related to unauthorized religious structures and jhuggis should be stopped immediately and should be proactively intervened by the concerned authorities. He underlined that he would be personally monitoring and any deviation from the directions will be taken very seriously.

It was decided that a meeting of ‘Religious Places Committee’, which decides upon removal of religious structures, will be held on every last working day of the month and all pending cases will be decided upon therein.

In the matter relating to parking outside of banquet halls it was decided that DDA will handover identified lands to Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) at institutional/notional rates. The MCD in turn would involve the association of banquet halls and instruct them to construct multilevel parking at their own cost in lieu of the land provided.

Task Force teams were created in January 2017 with an objective to act on major travel corridors in consultation with all stakeholders to improve traffic flow. “They had identified 77 corridors of around 400 kms for improvement.

The tasks identified were road engineering interventions to address choke points, regulation through augmented traffic police deployment and systems, manual intervention during peak hours and continuous action against unauthorized parking and removal of encroachments on these corridors,” said the sources.

Though some head-way was made, however work pertaining to removal of encroachments and unauthorized structures still remain stalled even after five years.

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