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Metro plans medical centre

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI NOV. 30. After taking up a residential and commercial complex near the Delhi University station, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation is now planning a multi-speciality medical centre on a three hectare plot about 500 metres from the station.

To market the plot, the DMRC has called upon the interested builders to submit detailed development plans. Once this procedure is completed, the developers would be required to construct as per the selected design and thereafter the premises would be leased out to a big name in medical care. The Advisor (Property Development) of DMRC, R.M. Raina, said located in a prime area with a large population base and easily approachable both by road and through the Metro, the medical centre is bound to attract big players in the field. He said the construction of the centre is expected to be completed by the time the Metro becomes operational in the area.

Besides catering to the people residing in the area, the medical centre would also be available to render its services to people residing far away as it would be located in close proximity of the Metro line that would connect Delhi University to Central Secretariat in Phase I and would subsequently be extended up to Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar in the north and Mahipalpur in the south. Also as the Metro corridor will criss-cross the Dwarka-Barakhamba corridor and Shahdara-Rithala corridor at Connaught Place and Kashmere Gate respectively, the medical centre in the environmentally-sound and aristocratic area would also be easily approachable to people in other parts of the Capital.

Besides, it would also have in its proximity a mini township of 1,000 flats which DMRC has planned right next to the Delhi University station and a commercial project on a 5 hectare plot on which a multiplex, food court, entertainment centre and shopping mall are due to come up.

Through such property development, DMRC intends raising 6 per cent of the cost of the project annually.

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