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Panel to examine bus project

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Project to be put in place by 2009, Delhi Govt. tells Supreme Court

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday entrusted to the Bhure Lal Committee the task of examining the feasibility of the High Capacity Bus System (HCBS)-corridor project for the Capital and submit a report by March 2006.

Earlier, the Transport Commissioner of the Delhi Government, V.S. Madan, told a three-Judge Bench comprising Chief Justice Y.K. Sabharwal, Justice Arijit Pasayat and Justice S.H. Kapadia that the project covering 103 km would have seven corridors and was likely to be completed by December 2009, ahead of the Commonwealth Games to be held in 2010.

He said the feasibility study would start soon and the first of the seven corridors would be completed by August 2007.

Mr. Madan said if there were a feasibility problem, another corridor would be added in its place and programmes relating to other modes of transport like Monorail and Light Rail Transport (LRT) would be submitted.

Giving the time schedule for construction of HCBS-Corridor, the Delhi Government said the feasibility design for the 16-km corridor from Ambedkar Nagar to Delhi Gate had already been completed and after other formalities the construction would be completed in 18 months by August 2007. The other six corridors would be completed on a package basis and the first package would include the 8-km corridor from Rajender Nagar to Pragati Maidan and 18-km corridor from Ashram to Nand Nagri via Sarai Kale Khan, Gazipur and Dilshad Garden, which would be completed by September 2008.

The second package includes the 20-km corridor from the eastern side of Ring Road to connect Moolchand to Jehangirpuri and the 14-km stretch from Kondli to Gokulpuri would take two years for completion by April 2009.

In the third package, the 7-km corridor would cover the route from Shastri Park to Karaval Nagar via Bhajanpur in East Delhi.

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