NCRPB Urged to Expedite Ghaziabad Infra Projects

A Ghaziabad MP, Atul Garg, led a delegation on Tuesday that urged the National Capital Region Planning Board (NCRPB) officials to incorporate and expedite works related to several infrastructure projects for Ghaziabad.

- Peeyush Khandelwal

GHAZIABAD:

Garg, flanked by Ghaziabad's mayor and three MLAs from Ghaziabad, also submitted an official representation about the projects to NCRPB's member secretary Archana Agarwal during a meeting held at the board's office in New Delhi. "Our delegation held a meeting and also submitted our representation to include infrastructure projects in the plan of the NCR planning board. Their (NCRPB's) meeting is going to be held soon, and we expect that our projects are also taken up," the MP said.

The list of projects includes the development of a riverfront at the Hindon river near Karhera.

In the representation, Garg pointed out issues of encroachment and narrowing of the floodplain zones of the Hindon in Noida area, and stated that a similar situation was developing near Karhera in Ghaziabad.