Delhi Lt Governor instructs agencies to complete decongestion of 77 traffic corridors
India Today
Delhi Lt Governor has instructed all departments to decongest 77 traffic corridors within the next three months.
Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena on Monday issued strict instructions to all stakeholder agencies including PWD, Forest Department, Home Department, among others to complete all pending tasks related to decongestion of 77 corridors for improving the flow of traffic within three months.
Upon being informed that most of the work pending since as long as 2019 related to removal of electric poles and power transformers, the LG wondered as to how such petty and innocuous works could get embroiled in red-tape of exchange of letters between different departments and needed to be discussed at the level of the LG itself.
On the issue of similar years-long delays in removal of identified religious structures, jhuggis and trees, Lt Governor Saxena expressed grave displeasure and directed officials to ensure total inter-departmental coordination and completely do away with the habit of conveniently and unjustifyingly using court orders as alibis and excuses for non-performance.
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According to sources, he asked the Chief Secretary who was present in the meeting to sort out all pending inter-departmental issues and fix a timeline for completion of each task at hand. The LG also instructed that it be ensured that the timelines are met and in case they are not, responsibility be fixed.
Of the pending 119 tasks, as many as 58 were required to be acted upon by the PWD. Removal of trees at eight places, jhuggis at seven and religious structures at 17 places apart from minor tasks like 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 that included Mehrauli-Gurgaon road, Mehrauli-Badarpur Road, Ring Road and Loni Road.
The Lt Governor also issued instructions that any ongoing activity in this regard should be stopped forth right and proactive intervention by authorities concerned should ensure that any such activity is nipped in the bud before it starts, in future. He underlined that he would personally monitor this and any deviation from the directions will be taken very seriously.
