Among the many busiest junctions in Delhi, Sarai Kale Khan goes to turn into the most important transport hub within the Capital with an built-in multi-modal transit service.
As a part of the Delhi part of the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut Regional Fast Transit System (RRTS) hall, the RRTS at Sarai Kale Khan is nearing completion. As soon as inaugurated, the journey time between Delhi and Meerut might be reduce by a 3rd — from three hours to only one.
The station will present built-in entry to a railway station, an inter-state bus station and the Delhi Metro by foot over bridges (FOBs). Sarai Kale Khan station can also be the most important on the hall, having six platforms and 4 tracks for Namo Bharat prepare motion.
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The station would be the centre level for different upcoming corridors as properly. To accommodate the anticipated footfall, the Nationwide Capital Area Transport Company (NCRTC) has supplied 5 entry and exit gates on the station. Geared up with 14 lifts and 18 escalators, it’s 215 m in size, 50 m in width, and 15 m in top.
The station connects to the Pink Line on the Delhi Metro community, the Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway Station, Veer Hakikat Rai ISBT (Sarai Kale Khan ISBT) and metropolis bus companies. It additionally connects to the Delhi-Meerut Expressway, the Barapullah flyover, Ring Highway, and DND, with proximity to the under-construction spur of Delhi-Mumbai Expressway.
A number of FOBs and 6 travelators will join the station to Nizamuddin railway station.
A public plaza is being deliberate exterior the station, situated between the RRTS station, the Delhi Metro station and the ISBT. This plaza will tie collectively the house and provide a spot to all commuters to chill out and rejuvenate, the NCRTC says.
The station is predicted to be prepared by June 2025.
Gole Market Redevelopment
Work on the much-delayed undertaking began October 2023, after Lieutenant-Governor V Okay Saxena laid the inspiration stone. The octagonal, tin-roofed construction, which was inbuilt 1921, will home a museum on “unsung girls heroes”. The proposal for the museum was initiated by then Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit 16 years in the past.
The undertaking, impressed by London’s Covent Backyard Market and the British Museum, is being constructed at an estimated price of Rs 21 crore. It entails the restoration of Gole Market, a Colonial-era market, and its surrounding areas. The Union government-run New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) was earlier aiming to complete the undertaking by the tip of 2023, however the deadline was pushed to December 2024. The redevelopment is predicted to be accomplished by August 2025.
Delhi-Dehradun Expressway
Ranging from the Akshardham Metro Station, the much-awaited Delhi-Dehradun Expressway — which is able to cut back journey time from Delhi to Dehradun from six hours to round two-and-a-half hours — is more likely to be inaugurated by the primary quarter of 2025.
Divided into 4 elements, the 210-km hall will move by Akshardham, Geeta Colony, Khajuri Khas in Delhi; Mandola, Tronica Metropolis, Baghpat, Shamli, Muzaffarnagar and Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh; and, lastly, Dehradun in Uttarakhand.
“Whereas the Akshardham-Jap Peripheral Expressway stretch is full, some work continues to be ongoing on different stretches. Your entire stretch could also be prepared by March,” says a Nationwide Highways Authority of India (NHAI) official.
The hall is designed for driving at a pace of 100 km per hour.
Rs 1,000 beneath Mukhyamantri Mahila Samman Yojna
The controversial scheme, introduced by the AAP authorities within the 2024-25 Finances, was cleared on December 13. The scheme guarantees to offer Rs 1,000 per 30 days to girls aged between 18 and 60 years who don’t pay earnings tax.
The scheme noticed objections from the state Finance Division over the dearth of funds and the potential for Delhi going right into a income deficit. Regardless of objections, the scheme was authorized by the council of ministers.
Whereas AAP volunteers have been going door-to-door, gathering data on possible beneficiaries, the Division of Ladies and Little one Improvement had just lately issued public notices saying that the portal for registration is beneath development and that official registration has not but began.
The scheme, based mostly on comparable programmes in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, is predicted to be applied in early 2025, officers say.
“Work on the portal is sort of full. Registrations will begin quickly. Rs 2,000 crore has been allotted for the undertaking already and we see no roadblocks,” mentioned a Delhi authorities official.
The AAP has additionally promised to extend the quantity from Rs 1,000 to Rs 2,100 if voted again to energy within the upcoming elections.
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