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Work on Badarpur flyover to begin in June

NEW DELHI: Nearly five years after it was conceptualised, the Badarpur flyover project is finally set to take off as various objections pertaining to it were cleared at a high-level meeting recently. The project would significantly ease the lives of those people who endure hours of snarls at the Delhi-Faridabad border as the 3-km long project would now cover five intersections, including two in Delhi and three in Haryana, and would be implemented on a build operate and transfer basis.

Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said this project would come as a major relief to people who used to remain stuck in the traffic in the area for hours. She said the project would be implemented in a very professional manner to reduce the construction period. The meeting at which the project was passed was also attended by Union Minister of Urban Development S. Jaipal Reddy and Delhi Lieutenant Governor Tejendra Khanna.

For the project, work on which is expected to start in June 2008, a proposal had been submitted to the Ministry of Shipping and Road Transport by the National Highways Authority of India. As part of the road corridor, a grade separator would be constructed at Badarpur and for which a project plan has been prepared by RITES.

A grade separator has been planned at the Badarpur crossing to provide a link with the Mehrauli-Badarpur Road. For local traffic, a two-laned service road with cycle tracks has also been included in the plan. These plans would considerable reduce congestion in the area as the highway is the main road connecting Delhi to Agra and beyond.

In order to provide for smooth flow of traffic various loops would also be constructed to connect with the grade separators. Estimated to cost Rs 270 crore, the project will be built on a BOT basis. And since this crucial link between Delhi and Faridabad would be taking care of the traffic needs of the National Highway 2 in the area for the next couple of decades, the authorities are now hopeful that work would get underway soon.

Incidentally, while the plans for this project had been finalised three years ago, the six-lane elevated road project had got delayed due to various political and procedural reasons.

As there were widespread encroachments that were needed to be removed before it could be taken up and since it was coming in the way of the interests of a powerful local politician, the project was scuttled.

This had also hampered the development of the industrial township of Faridabad. Fed up with the delay in the project, some residents of the satellite township had under the banner of People for Faridabad (PPF) taken up the issue in a big way and even moved a PIL in Supreme Court to seek expediting of the construction.

Now with the project being approved at the highest level, it appears the travelling needs of the people in the area would finally be addressed to their satisfaction.

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