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Dy CM's office a roadblock to Delhi-Meerut expressway's construction

The project for the 96-kilometre long expressway was announced last year, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi laying the foundation stone in December 2015. Since then, the project has faced many roadblocks.

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The Centre's pet project, the Delhi-Meerut Expressway, has hit a roadblock from an unlikely source—Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia's office. According to sources, while conducting a survey, the state administration identified 15 encroachments on the locations where the expressway will run; one of them being the Deputy CM's office.

Commenting on the impediments in the construction of the expressway, a senior government officer said. "Several municipal corporations' nurseries, the Jai Bharti camp slums with 1,100 juggis, the batch mixing plant and the casting yard of the Barapulla elevated corridor Phase III and the Deputy Chief Minister's office will need to be removed as soon as possible."

The project for the 96-kilometre long expressway was announced last year, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi laying the foundation stone in December 2015. Since then, the project has faced many roadblocks.

Sources say that the Centre recently expressed its annoyance with the Delhi administration for the delay with Cabinet secretary PK Sinha sharply pulling up Delhi's Chief Secretary KK Sharma in early November for the same.

Following this, Sharma began work in earnest.       

Shama called up a meeting with the stakeholders who were either involved or affected in the building of the expressway. Documents of the meeting available with DNA showed that not only slums, private residential buildings, religious structures and government buildings would be affected, but also public utilities. The documents show that public agencies like BSES, DJB, MTNL, Transco and IGL among others, who have offices in East Delhi, have been asked to shift as early as possible.

Such encroachments will further delay a project which has already been delayed, since the work for the Delhi stretch was awarded to the concessionaire on March 4 this year.

The Delhi Meerut expressway is slated to start from the National Highway-II on Ring Road and end in Meerut, UP.

The 14-lane expressway is estimated to cost over Rs 2,000 crore to build and is slated to be completed in 2018.

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