New Delhi [India], July 15 (ANI): Vendors and telemarketing companies making unsolicited calls to consumers may soon be required to pay heavy penalties to the victim consumers.
New Delhi Mar 19 PTI After a delay of over a year during which it missed nearly eight deadlines the 750-metre-long underpass at the perennially clogged Ashram crossing in Delhi is all set to open for public next week a move that will benefit lakhs of commutersDelhis Public Works Department PWD has finalised the construction work of the underpassThe construction work has almost been completed Only some finishing touches are being given We hope to open it next week on the given date a government official saidDelhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia had earlier this month carried out an inspection of the underpass in south Delhi and had announced that it would be opened for the public on March 22The foundation stone for the underpass was laid by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on December 24 2019 and it was to be completed in a yearPWD officials said the deadline was first extended to March 2021 It was further pushed to June 30 2021 and then to September 2021 It was again extended to December 2021 and finally to March 2022The officials said they are yet to get a schedule for its inauguration ceremony from the governmentAn official said shed work on ramps of the underpass is underway and footpaths along the road of the underpass is also to be done Both of these can be done even after the facility is opened he saidSisodia who also holds the PWD portfolio said opening of the underpass will benefit lakhs of people dailyAshram Chowk is an important link between central and south Delhi and also with Faridabad The junction connects Mathura Road and Ring Road linking Lajpat Nagar-Sarai Kale Khan and the DND flyoverAccording to data provided by the traffic police around 25 lakh to three lakh vehicles cross the Ashram intersection every day during peak traffic hoursThe PWD officials said the delay initially was due to the COVID-19 lockdown and later because of the ban on construction activities amid a spike in pollution levelsThe estimated cost of the project is Rs 78 crore they said PTI AKM IJT IJT
New Delhi Jan 19 PTI The Supreme Court on Wednesday permitted Noida Toll Bridge Company Ltd NTBCL to put advertisements on the Delhi-Noida-Delhi DND flyway located inside the territory of Uttar Pradesh A bench comprising Justices L Nageswara Rao and B R Gavai asked the state government authority to refrain from taking any coercive action against the concessionaire The commercials put by the NTBCL were pulled down due to alleged non-payment of an increased license fee by the authorities The NTBCL represented by lawyers firm Karanjawala co has been opposed to the increase in the license fees The apex court has now fixed the plea of NTBCL for a final hearing in March 2022 and for the time being the private firm will have to pay license fees of Rs 125square feet to the Noida Authority Inaugurated as a toll road in January 2001 toll collection was discontinued on the DND flyway after an order passed by the Allahabad High Court in October 2016 The NTBCL has appealed against the High Court order in the apex court Senior lawyers A M Singhvi and Siddharth Bhatnagar appearing for the firm said the Noida Authority had confiscated its property with the sole aim to irreparably harm its financial assets its revenue stream from advertisements and undermine its viability as a going concern NTBCL in its petition has said that the company was solely reliant on advertising revenues for the day-to-day maintenance of the bridge after the collection of toll was suspended PTI SJK SJK RKS RKS
Anticipation of farmers protests over the Lakhimpur Kheri incident spilling onto the NCR, key highways around Delhi were blocked on Monday morning that led to traffic mess in the morning. Delhi Traffic Police asked commuters to opt for alternate routes to Ghaziabad and Noida. National Highway 24 was barricaded by UP Police hence diversion of traffic was […]
New Delhi [India], September 27 (ANI): Traffic movement in Delhi and neighbouring states were hit on Monday as farmers blocked roads and national highways as part of a Bharat Bandh today.
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