By IANS,
New Delhi : Acknowledging that several projects not linked directly to the Commonwealth Games had been taken up simultaneously by the Delhi government, an official Wednesday said that all the infrastructure-related work would be completed by the end of September.
“Hosting of the Commonwealth Games provided us an opportunity to make the city beautiful, and in the process many projects that were directly not linked to the Games were taken up, which should have been done 2-3 years later,” the chief minister’s Principal Secretary P.K. Tripathi told reporters here.
Principal Secretary of the Public Works Department K.K. Sharma said the elevated road built over the Barapullah drain, to link the Commonwealth Games village in east Delhi to Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in south Delhi, will be completed by Sep 18, while the Ring Road bypass – linking Indira Gandhi Stadium to Kashmere Gate – will be thrown open to public Sep 11.
The two much-awaited projects have missed many deadlines and are crucial as far as the Games are concerned.
Tripathi attributed much delay in completion of several projects to the multiplicity of authorities besides pending court cases, and added that the rains were also acting as an obstacle in the work as things had to be done “carefully”.
On the project of the UP Link Road in east Delhi, he said the work was challenging and not easy, but “we will complete it by September-end”.
The official also asserted that there “is no compromise” with quality in the ongoing Games works.