All projects to be completed before Commonwealth Games: Chauhan

PWD Minister Rajkumar Chauhan today said his department was fully alert and prepared to complete all its projects before the beginning of the Common Wealth Games.

Mr Chauhan, who visited the construction sites of Apsara Border flyover, directed all agencies concerned to work in tandem to ensure commissioning of projects at the earliest. He further directed the Railways and PWD officers to resolve critical issues relating to land acquisition, tree cutting and traffic diversion etc. The Minister, who was accompanied by PWD ENC Rakesh Mishra and Project Manager concerned and many other senior engineers, assured that PWD would maintain quality and try to live up to the expectation of the people. After inspecting the construction work going on at all the projects, Mr Chauhan told mediapersons that the three layer Grade Separator being built at GT Road Junction at Apsara Border would cost Rs 226 crore.

The GT road at Apsara Border caters to large volume of traffic from ISBT to UP and vice versa. The construction of flyover on the road has been proposed to relief to the traffic on both sides. Flyover would help the traffic movement from Delhi and Ghaziabad. There is a proposal to build three lanes Grade Seperator at this crossing. Of 645-meter long flyover, about 300 meter portion grade separator will be in UP. Apart from this, two Vehicular Underpass have been constructing alogn road no 62 and 56 to provide direct access to the traffic Dilshad Garden to ISBT Anand Vihar. A 860-meter long underpasses below the Delhi-Ghaziabd Railway line will also be built for which Push Boxes have been proposed under the Railway line. About 70 per cent of the work on this project has been completed and the main flyover will open in April for commuters while its two underpasses, which are under construction, would be ready by June 2010.

Mr Chauhan said the all Commonwealth Games related projects would be completed within stipulated time as constant monitoring is being done to accelerate the pace of work.