PWD claims flyovers and underpasses helped save fuel worth Rs 2,689 crore
26 July 2014 6:29 AM IST
At the 53rd foundation day of the department, PWD unveiled a booklet of its achievements and said that it has also saved Rs 66 crore by preventing carbon dioxide emission of 14,34,669 tonnes.
‘By reducing the carbon dioxide emission, we have not only contributed to environment conservation but also saved about Rs 66 crore which the environment department would have spent to control the emission by various means,’ a department official said.
The department said it has spent Rs 3,148 crore on 18 such projects and the amount was fully recovered within three years of the completion of the project in year 2011.
‘The construction cost of the projects of grade separators (which includes a road underpass, a main road, a pedestrian walkway and a flyover at one place) at Mangolpuri, Mukarba Chowk, ITO Chungi, Shyam Lal College and Anand Vihar project, were recovered within the first year of commissioning,’ the official said.
The Mangolpuri grade separator was constructed with a cost of Rs 38.00 crore in year 2009. ‘It is saving 9.5 lakh manhours a day, fuel worth Rs 23.5 lakh per year, it has reduced CO2 emission by 5,548 tonne per year,’ the official said.
Similarly the Mukarba Chowk grade separator, which was commissioned with a cost of Rs 195 crore in year 2009, is saving fuel worth Rs 1.6 crore a year, 66.5 lakh manhours and has reduced CO2 emission by 39,024 tonnes a year.
‘The Azadpur grade separator, completed in February 2010 with a cost of Rs 154 crore, saves 16 lakh manhours a day’ he added.
Delhi’s chief secretary Sanjay Kumar Srivastava said that the PWD has adopted new technologies and upgraded its work force according to the requirement.
‘By reducing the carbon dioxide emission, we have not only contributed to environment conservation but also saved about Rs 66 crore which the environment department would have spent to control the emission by various means,’ a department official said.
The department said it has spent Rs 3,148 crore on 18 such projects and the amount was fully recovered within three years of the completion of the project in year 2011.
‘The construction cost of the projects of grade separators (which includes a road underpass, a main road, a pedestrian walkway and a flyover at one place) at Mangolpuri, Mukarba Chowk, ITO Chungi, Shyam Lal College and Anand Vihar project, were recovered within the first year of commissioning,’ the official said.
The Mangolpuri grade separator was constructed with a cost of Rs 38.00 crore in year 2009. ‘It is saving 9.5 lakh manhours a day, fuel worth Rs 23.5 lakh per year, it has reduced CO2 emission by 5,548 tonne per year,’ the official said.
Similarly the Mukarba Chowk grade separator, which was commissioned with a cost of Rs 195 crore in year 2009, is saving fuel worth Rs 1.6 crore a year, 66.5 lakh manhours and has reduced CO2 emission by 39,024 tonnes a year.
‘The Azadpur grade separator, completed in February 2010 with a cost of Rs 154 crore, saves 16 lakh manhours a day’ he added.
Delhi’s chief secretary Sanjay Kumar Srivastava said that the PWD has adopted new technologies and upgraded its work force according to the requirement.
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