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Mini-market at Janpath to get a facelift

NEW DELHI: After Janpath’s Tibetan Market, it is now the mini-market at Janpath that will be undergoing redevelopment soon if all goes well according to the New Delhi Municipal Council’s plans.

According to an NDMC official, the mini-market redevelopment plan would involve relocation of 57 shops along with around 100 ‘tehbazari’ allotees to the surface parking area between Life Insurance Corporation of India building and the present location of the mini-market. The surface parking would be made into an underground facility.The space vacated after relocation would be developed as a thoroughfare and be fully pedestrianised.

The timeline for the implementation of the ambitious project would be one year after the due process of awarding of tenders. Initiative of the NDMC’s Civil Engineering Department, the project will be taken up at the Council’s meeting this month and be opened for tender awarding once sanctioned by the Council.

Said the official: “We have designed the mini-market project on the lines of Dilli Haat. We plan to clear the encroachments and provide more open space in the market for pedestrians. At present most shops exist without sign boards and are of different sizes. However, under our redevelopment project we plan to make the shops of uniform height and provide them flexi-sheet signboards.”

Though in the offing for the past few years, the plan has taken a concrete shape only recently as part of the overall redevelopment plan of Connaught Place taken up by the Council with the Commonwealth Games-2010 in mind. Apart from NDMC, the three main stakeholders in the project are the Old Mini Market Traders’ Association, New Mini Market Traders’ Association and the Tehbazari Allotment Association.

Sanjeev Bhasin, president of the Old Mini Market Traders’ Association representing 37 shops, said: “We are still waiting for the NDMC to show us the final map of the project so that we can discuss our view with them.”

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