Delhi Government nod for new transport projects -ISBT Kashmere Gate to get a facelift ahead of Games

ISBT Kashmere Gate to get a facelift ahead of Games

The Delhi Government's Expenditure Finance Committee on Thursday gave its nod for two projects of the Transport Department worth Rs.86.83 crore at a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and attended by Finance Minister A.K. Walia and Transport Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely among others.

While one of the projects involves giving a facelift to ISBT Kashmere Gate, the other pertains to constructing a semi-permanent building at a DTC parking lot for Commonwealth Games that is coming up near Indraprastha Power Station on Ring Road. Following the meeting, Ms. Dikshit said in view of the Commonwealth Games it has been decided to give a facelift to Kashmere Gate ISBT. The first phase of the project would be taken up immediately and would be completed by September 2010 at a cost of Rs.74.16 crore.

As a large number of passengers would be using ISBT Kashmere Gate during the Commonwealth Games, the need was felt to upgrade the existing facilities there. As part of the first phase of the facelift, the funds would be utilised towards civil work, sanitation, modern water supply system, fire-fighting, solar lighting and power management.

The Committee also sanctioned Rs.12.67 crore for construction of a semi-permanent building at the DTC parking lot for the Commonwealth Games that is coming up on the fly-ash pond near the IP Power Station on Ring Road.

The meeting was informed that the construction of the parking project is under way and the new semi-permanent structure would be used for providing other facilities. Since this parking site is located between the Commonwealth Games Village on the banks of the Yamuna and the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, the main venue for the Games, it would be used for parking buses that would be used for ferrying the players and officials to and from these two Games venues.