The Delhi High Court on Tuesday pulled up PWD and DDA for not filing compliance report with regard to functioning of an alternative route during building of a three-lane flyover parallel to the one existing at Rao Tula Ram (RTR) Marg on the Outer Ring Road here.
A bench of justices Badar Durrez Ahmed and Siddharth Mridul, irked over non-compliance of its earlier direction, said if the agencies as discussed do not ‘de-congest the traffic to and from the airport’, the work will not proceed further. It said DDA should remove illegal constructions on that road. The court also restrained DDA from cutting down trees without permission of the appropriate authority while carrying out construction work of the new flyover. The bench issued the directions after the petitioner association representing the residents of the area submitted that the court’s order has not been complied with and there is illegal constructions.
Earlier, the court had allowed the PWD to go ahead with its project. On 28 October , the court had said that ‘the alternative measures discussed for de-congesting the traffic to and from the airport, particularly, at the T-junction joining Nelson Mandela Marg and the Outer Ring Road as also the entry point after Ryan International School from Mehrauli Mahipalpur Road to the DDA road shall be made operational within two weeks.
A bench of justices Badar Durrez Ahmed and Siddharth Mridul, irked over non-compliance of its earlier direction, said if the agencies as discussed do not ‘de-congest the traffic to and from the airport’, the work will not proceed further. It said DDA should remove illegal constructions on that road. The court also restrained DDA from cutting down trees without permission of the appropriate authority while carrying out construction work of the new flyover. The bench issued the directions after the petitioner association representing the residents of the area submitted that the court’s order has not been complied with and there is illegal constructions.
Earlier, the court had allowed the PWD to go ahead with its project. On 28 October , the court had said that ‘the alternative measures discussed for de-congesting the traffic to and from the airport, particularly, at the T-junction joining Nelson Mandela Marg and the Outer Ring Road as also the entry point after Ryan International School from Mehrauli Mahipalpur Road to the DDA road shall be made operational within two weeks.