Six corridors in Delhi to be de-congested

Six road corridors of Delhi, including Vikas Marg, Mehrauli-Badarpur Road, New Rohtak Road, Patel Road, Outer Ring Road, will be de-congested by authorities.

This is the second phase of exercise of de-congestion of roads by the task force formed by Lt Governor Anil Baijal.

Baijal today held a review meeting with all the stakeholders to review the progress on traffic decongestion of five pilot corridors.

"Lt Governor directed the stakeholders to ensure that there should not be any re-encroachment, after removal of encroachment. He stressed that local police/thana should assume responsibility for the same," the L-G office said in a statement.

It stated that six new corridors - Mehrauli-Badarpur Road, New Rohtak Road, Patel Road, Outer Ring Road, Shahid Jagat Narayan Marg and Vikas Marg - have been identified by task force for decongestion of traffic.

The statement also stated that the LG advised all three MCDs to revisit their licensing norms for commercial establishments so that they should be linked with availability of adequate parking space.