Deputy chief minister will initiate the process of dismantling of the 5.8-km-long bus rapid transit corridor between Ambedkar Nagar and Moolchand on Tuesday.
Deputy chief minister will initiate the process of dismantling of the 5.8-km-long bus rapid transit corridor between Ambedkar Nagar and Moolchand on Tuesday. The BRT corridor, which was built in 2008 by the previous Sheila Dikshit dispensation at a cost of around Rs 180 crore, will be completely dismantled by February. The deconstruction will cost around Rs 12 crore.
A senior government official said the dismantling work will be carried out only in nights to ensure smooth movement of traffic. “The deputy chief minister will start the process of dismantling the BRT corridor, a pet project of former chief minister Sheila Dikshit, at 2 pm near DDA Flats in Madangir area on Tuesday.
“PWD minister Satyendar Jain and five MLAs, who have been demanding its scrapping for long, will also take part in the process,” the official said. Transport minister Gopal Rai said the AAP government was not against the concept of BRT, but the existing corridor was built on a “wrong” stretch of road.
Last year, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal had said his government will introduce the BRT model in an improved form in the city. Dismantling of the corridor will be carried out in the first phase while in the second, the government will engage local residents in preparing a comprehensive plan of redesigning the roads, for which a consultant has been appointed by the PWD. The BJP had also demanded scrapping of the corridor and it promised to dismantle it in its vision document for the Assembly polls last year.
The corridor was constructed by Delhi Integrated Multi- Modal Transit System (DIMMTS), a joint-venture company set up by Delhi government and Infrastructure Development Finance Corporation.
