The NDMC and the traders in Connaught Place are awaiting anxiously these days for the two Games projects currently going on at Connaught Place, to get over at the earliest possible. While the CP restoration project is nearly 90 to 95 per cent over, the other project of installing four escalators in CP’s outer circle and laying of duct for wires in the middle circle is keeping the authorities on their toes.
NDMC spokesperson Anand Tiwari told this newspaper that the work on the project related to installation of the escalators and laying of duct for in the middle circle was going on at good pace and it was hoped that it would be finished by August 30. “We are hopeful that deadline will be met. Some unexpected barrels, lines and other utilities underneath do get discovered by the agencies working on the project. It then takes some time to shift them,” said Mr Tiwari. He added that the CP restoration project was expected to finish by July-end or August beginning.
Though the traders had given approval to the projects, they are wary about the time chosen to finish it. “The idea is very good. But I believe that the NDMC has taken up too huge a task in short a time,” New Delhi Traders’ Association president Atul Bhargava said.