Today’s TOI (dt May 5) reports MCD’s demolition drive on Vikas Marg from Laxmi Nagar crossing to Preet Vihar. The drive in itself is commendable but should be extended to parallel road of Vikas Marg as well.
With this email, I bring to your kind attention huge encroachment of prime land of Chitra Vihar by Slum dwellers. This huge piece of land costing crores of rupees meant for Shopping complex wide road is most important connecting road for East Delhi residents commuting to Shantivan, Darya Ganj and other parts of Delhi via disused Canal road constructed parallel to Vikas Marg from Karkari Mor to Old Pushta Bridge Marginal Bandh Road. This is also feeder road from Indira Gandhi Stadium to Yamuna Sports Complex via Shantivan and Karkardooma.
Not only land encroachment, but this Jhuggi Jhopdi cluster has turned into a ground for all illegal activities, unauthorized commercial setups, road side vendors, hawkers, scrap dealers, hundreds of cycle rickshaw menace, loud and vulnerable noise. It has become a huge nuisance specially for residents of GUJARAT VIHAR (house no 3-24) who have to live with this cluster day in & out (can be called mini Bihar) right across the road. It has become impossible to step out of house as encroachment cover more than half of the road and they literally barge into our homes. This is also leading to major traffic chaos during peak hours morning 7-10 and evening 5-9, when office and school traffic literally makes it impossible to walk or drive. The continuous noise of traffic has made our life’s a hell.
The red light crossing of five roads is always chaos as everyone wants to move; nobody stops on red light, leading to long queue of traffic, which is always unmanageable. Any traffic police never mans this crossing. The Slum cluster add to the woes the traffic, leading to many accidents, especially of small children who wander here and there.
During last Delhi elections, I had pointed out this situation on Star News coverage by Deepak Chaurasia when Smriti Irani, BJP was doing rounds of East Delhi, but all in vain and drain. Elections gone, promises gone.
In the light of Common Wealth Games, this old Canal Road is the most important connecting link for all East Delhi residents & tourists to reach Indira Gandhi Stadium and Yamuna Sports Complex and other parts of Delhi.
Beautifying Delhi by mere changing pavement blocks and widening major roads should not be the only objective of Delhi Government. But, practical difficulties need to be addressed & resolved in the wake of making Delhi a world class city worth tolive. Each common resident of Delhi is more concerned about his local living environment and facilities which he gets like roads, cleanliness, street lights, healthy atmosphere, etc rather than just AIRPORTS, STADIUM, MCD Building, etc.
I hope with your wide coverage, my voice will reach to the deaf ears of Mr Sandeep Dixit and Mr Naseeb Singh, who have practically turned blind in awe of vote bank.
Hope somewhere will hear one day……………and ACT
A resentful resident of Gujarat Vihar who is suffering from past 25 years.
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