Govt to develop city roads as per European style
The Arvind Kejriwal government has decided to revamp 500 km of city roads as per European standards.
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal also inspected the pilot stretch developed from Delhi’s Britannia Chowk to Outer Ring Road on Tuesday and directed the public works department (PWD) officials to “improve work” on the horticulture segment of the stretch.
Mr Kejriwal, accompanied by deputy CM Manish Sisodia and senior officials of PWD, expressed his unhappiness towards the horticulture work on the stretch and implied that it should be improved.
“We are beautifying 500 km PWD roads in Delhi on European standards. For this, we are developing 16 stretches on a pilot basis across the city. These pilot
projects are likely to be completed by September or October. We will then review and finalise a model which will be best suited for the redevelopment of roads,” said Mr Kejriwal.
“After completion of the pilot project, the best model will be chosen and applied to 500 km roads across Delhi to re-design
them at par with European standards,” said Mr Kejriwal.
A total of 5 km from the Britannia Chowk to Outer Ring Road stretch is being redeveloped. Officials said that of this a total of 2 km has been redeveloped as part of the pilot project.
A senior PWD official said that the project entails strengthening of the road, enhancing its aesthetics and greenery, and introducing user facilities like kiosks, benches, decorative lights, and water ATMs on the roadside.
The PWD officials also briefed the CM in detail about the progress of the road being made beautiful by redesigning it on European standards.
Mr Sisodia also suggested the Delhi government to take it upon itself to beautify as well as maintain the entire region, including the ordnance factory landscape, at its own cost to make the space more appealing.
Mr Sisodia advised the officials to have beautiful paintings created on the wall. The officers also shared proposed plans for the redevelopment of Anukampa Chowk as well as showed a comparison of old versus new and developed views of the completed areas.