After 2.5 years, MCD clears stuck public utility projects

The standing committee of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) on Wednesday approved a slew of long-pending infrastructure proposals, including a multilevel parking project, a new waste processing facility at Ghazipur, road and streetlight revamps in south and west Delhi, and sanitation upgrades ~ ina significant policy push aftera prolonged delay.

- Paras Singh

The approvals come after more than two and a halfyears of deadlock, caused by political and legal disputes over the formation of the standing committee. This was only the second meeting of the newly constituted panel, which reviewed over 130 policy proposals and layout plan changes. Officials said that 23 of 130 resolutions were cleared.

Parking, lighting, roads

A senior MCD official said that the panel has cleared the proposal for an automated multilevel puzzle parking facility at Bharat Darshan Park in Punjabi Bagh, which will accommodate 188 vehicles. “The parking facility will help ease congestion at this busy west Delhi junction near a high-footfall tourist attraction,” the official said.

The panel also gave its nod toa comprehensive project for the operation and maintenance of streetlight infrastructure in the south, central, west, and Najafgarh zones. “This will help upgrade the existing LED network in areas formerly under the South MCD,” the official added.