Dy CM Sisodia initiates dismantling of BRT Corridor

Striking a hammer, deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Tuesday started the process of dismantling the controversial BRT Corridor, a Rs 180-crore project built in 2008, and took a swipe at previous Sheila Dikshit government for its “copy-paste” work.

The AAP government has set a deadline of March 22 this year for dismantling the Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) corridor, a 6.20-km long stretch from Ambedkar Nagar to Lajpat Nagar Metro station, which will cost the government Rs 3.15 crore.

Sisodia, whose Aam Aadmi Party had made a poll promise to scrap the BRT claiming that it had backfired causing more chaos on the roads, said Congress leaders “might have gone abroad and copied the BRT and pasted it on Delhi without proper planning which was a dangerous work ... Even cheating requires application of mind”. The dismantling work of the corridor will be carried out only in nights to ensure smooth movement of traffic.

“It will perhaps be the first road of the country which people would be happy to see being dismantled,” Sisodia said while addressing a gathering at the event here.