New Delhi Feb 20 PTI The New Delhi Municipal Council NDMC will implement 100 per cent mechanical sweeping in prominent areas under its jurisdiction such as Connaught Place Hanuman Mandir Vatika and Baba Kharak Singh Marg officials saidThere should be a comprehensive planning of housekeeping through the mechanical process instead of the manual process on the lines of airport housekeepingCurrently sweeping work in parking areas corridors and courtyards in the Connaught Place pavement area is being carried out by the health department manually whereas that on the green belt is being carried out by horticulture department and mechanised sweeping on main roads is being carried out by the civil department NDMC Vice-Chairman Satish Upadhyay saidThe top official informed that in the first phase mechanical sweeping work will cover the 14 blocks and seven radial roads of Connaught Place as it is the biggest and most prominent commercial market situated in the heart of the capital city where more than one lakh visitors traders come for day-to-day business and commercial activitiesIn the second phase it will be implemented in the Hanuman Mandir Vatika Baba Kharak Singh Marg and the Emporia Building areaThe sweeping washing scrubbing and maintenance work will be divided into two durations In the first duration the work of sweeping will be commenced in the night hours after closing of shops from 11 pm onwards and in the second duration sweeping will be done at daytime Upadhyay saidMechanical sweeping will be carried out by special machines like truck-mounted mechanical road sweepers scrubbing machines pressure jetting machines and vacuum litter pickers among othersAs per the proposed SOP standard operating procedure the overall work at Connaught Place will be divided into seven main partsThere is a provision in scrubbing machines that helps in scrubbing corridors and granite footpaths There is a provision of washing walls railings and corners and litter bins through pressure jetting machines The proposal will be prepared for a two-year period through a tender process The tender will be floated within three-four months after completion of the tender procedure Upadhyay said PTI GJS IJT

New Delhi Oct 26 PTI Traffic remained affected on the Major P Shree Kumar Marg here on Tuesday after the formation of a deep pothole on the stretch causing inconvenience to the commuters Taking to Twitter the Delhi Traffic Police said only one lane on both carriage ways is available for to and fro movement of traffic due to formation of the pothole Traffic will remain heavy on Major P Shree Kumar Marg and Lal Sai Marg Kindly avoid this stretch the Delhi Traffic Police wrote on its official Twitter handle A few days ago Prof Joginder Singh Marg in the western part of the national capital had been closed after a portion of the road caved in The traffic police had also taken to Twitter to inform commuters about the road closure In July this year a portion of a road under IIT-Delhi flyover caved in following heavy rains in the national capital then affecting traffic in the area Following the incident traffic going from Adhchini to IIT was also diverted from Adhchini to Katwaria Sarai after a portion of a road near IIT red light traffic signal caved in the Traffic Police had then tweeted in Hindi The Public Works Department had then said the portion of the road had caved in because of the leakage in an underground Delhi Jal Board line PTI AMP CK

New Delhi Oct 19 PTI The Delhi Traffic Police on Tuesday said that Prof Joginder Singh Marg in the western part of the national capital had been closed after the road caved inThe traffic police took to Twitter to inform commuters about the road closureProf Joginder Singh Marg has been closed from both sides as the road has caved in they tweeted in HindiDelhi had recorded 879 mm of rainfall between 830 am on Sunday and 830 am on Monday The city had recorded 04 mm of rainfall between 830 am and 530 pm on Monday The rains caused waterlogging at several places in the national capital PTI NIT NIT DIV DIV

New Delhi [India], September 14 (ANI): Delhi Lt Governor Anil Baijal on Tuesday approved the relocation of slum dwellers of three JJ clusters to the built-up EWS flats under PM Aawas Yojna (PMAY), Urban.

The road leading to the Ram Janmabhoomi complex in Ayodhya will be named after Kalyan Singh to pay tribute to the former UP chief minister and veteran BJP leader. UP Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya said the road leading to Ram Mandir will be named ‘Kalyan Singh Marg’. He added that proposal to name […]