In a bid to ease mobility in the Capital, Union Minister of Urban Development M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday announced special assistance of Rs3,250 crore for decongestion of roads and development of Delhi.
Delhi Government will be provided with Rs1, 500 crore, DDA with Rs1, 665 crore and North Municipal Corporation of Delhi with Rs85 crore for executing various projects.
The projects to be taken up by the Delhi Development Authority are construction of1 km long Rail Under Bridge at Holambi and Rail Over Bridge of 1.40 km length at Mundka, on Eastern Urban Road-I at a cost of Rs615 cr and construction of 860 meter long Rail over Bridge at Narela on Urban Eastern Road-I for decongesting Outer Ring Road at a cost of Rs400 cr. Also, the DDA will be involved in construction of 1.50 km long tunnel near Bhagya Vihar and Meer Vihar on Urban Eastern Road-II at a cost of Rs300 cr which helps in decongesting Outer Ring Road and completion of the 3.50 km stretch of Dwarka Express Way between Urban Eastern Road-II and Northern Peripheral Road providing relief to the residents of Dwarka and Gurgaon by reducing travel time and decongesting NH-8.
Naidu also announced Rs96.70 cr to the Delhi Government for taking up Swachh Delhi works through Municipal Bodies and handed over a cheque to the Delhi Government. From this amount, the Delhi Government issued sanction orders on the spot giving Rs34. 53 cr to North MCD, Rs24.56 cr to East MCD, Rs23.64 cr to South MCD, 3.32 cr to Delhi Cantonment Board, Rs4.89 cr to DUSIB and Rs70 lakhs to NDMC.
The North MCD will be provided with Rs85 cr to complete balance work of construction of Grade Seperator at Rani Jhansi Road that will reduce travel time from Karol Bagh to North Delhi by about 50 minutes
Stating that his Ministry has taken the initiative of resolving Property Tax/Service Charge disputes between DDA and 3 MCDs, Naidu said the DDA will immediately pay Rs 18.70 crore including Rs8.70 crore to North MCD, Rs6.80 cr to South MCD and Rs3.20 crore to East MCD.