PWD urges businesses to behave on pending site visitors works

Taking cognisance of worsening site visitors snarls within the Capital, the Public Works Department (PWD) has written to a number of authorities businesses, urging them to nominate nodal officers to fast-track pending works at 89 site visitors congestion hotspots throughout the town.

According to a report submitted by the Delhi Traffic Police to the PWD in March, 233 areas throughout the town want street or infrastructure upgrades to ease congestion. Of these, 89 factors stay unresolved attributable to points resembling bus stops obstructing site visitors circulate, poor street floor circumstances, lacking signages and grilles, and insufficient road lighting.

A Delhi authorities official informed The Hindu {that a} committee has been shaped underneath the management of the Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic). It contains officers from numerous departments and site visitors cops, who’re usually consulting with specialists to plan options for decongesting the town’s roads.

Of the 233 complete areas, 99 are categorised as resolved or not possible, 11 are partially accomplished, 89 are pending, and in 34 instances, responses from involved businesses are awaited, the official stated. 

Work in progress

“In spite of normal follow-ups by the Delhi Traffic Police, work at numerous areas remains to be pending. Therefore, you’re requested to take essential motion to execute pending works in a time-bound method,” the PWD wrote in its communication to the businesses.  The PWD, which maintains all main roads within the nationwide capital, is liable for 123 of the congestion factors. Of these, 37 stay pending whereas motion has been taken on 75.

According to the report, different businesses liable for unresolved areas embody the Delhi Transport Corporation (15), the New Delhi Municipal Council (13), the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (13), and the National Highways Authority of India (22). A couple of pending areas fall underneath the Delhi Jal Board and the Delhi Development Authority.

The minor works required vary from repairing street surfaces, fixing lacking grilles on central verges, putting in reflectors and signboards, portray street markings, and repainting zebra crossings, amongst others.

In South Delhi, the report highlights the necessity to relocate a number of bus stops, resembling these on the Ring Road stretch between AIIMS and Safdarjung Hospital, Lal Bahadur Shastri Marg, Josip Broz Tito Marg, and close to Nizamuddin Railway Station.

“The bus stand underneath the Modi Mill flyover within the carriageway of Ashram to Badarpur on Mathura Road must be shifted additional 150 meters forward by DTC,” the report states.

In the NDMC space, street marking work is pending in a number of locations, together with Outer Circle Connaught Place, Janpath Road, Shankar Road, Rajendra Prasad Road, and Abai Marg (Chanakyapuri).

The PWD has additionally been tasked with repairing roads and putting in signage on main stretches like Najafgarh–Bijwasan Road, Rohtak Road, Nangloi Road, IGI Airport Slip Road, Aurobindo Marg, and August Kranti Marg.