The Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD) will commence to mark the spots in the 40 new wards for the construction of the bus shelters this month.
Apart from this, the corporation is also planning to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the installation of the LED street lights in the new wards too.
According to the officials, the MCD will begin a survey to mark the places for setting up the bus shelters in the new wards soon.
The old wards already have several bus shelters which generate over Rs 20 lakh of revenue every year for the corporation and the new bus shelters will also be useful for the people of the new wards besides helping MCD to generate more revenue, as per the officials.
According to the municipal commissioner, Vinay Shankar Pandey, around 25 to 30 bus shelters will be constructed in the new wards.
Though, it has not been decided yet whether the corporation will build the shelters on its own or the construction will be done under public private partnership (PPP), the possibility is that these will be constructed under PPP mode, informed Pandey.
Talking about the installation of LED street lights in the new wards, Pandey said that the corporation was planning to sign an MoU with a private company for the installation of 65,000 street lights on Thursday but it was cancelled after an MCD employee was found Covid-19 positive on Wednesday.
Therefore, the MoU will be signed on Saturday or the next week, added Pandey.
