Public Works Department News

The construction of the elevated road started in 2015 and was scheduled to be finished in October 2017. The project hit a hurdle as two patches of private land were yet to be acquired. The project progressed slowly because of the land hurdle and missed several deadlines.

Visibly annoyed at the development, Delhi Chief Minister attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the move.

The city government has been directed by the Delhi High Court to post online a list of all speed breakers on the city's roads and called for forming a panel to ensure removal of illegal ones.

The ACB on May 2 informed a Delhi court that it had lodged three separate FIRs on a criminal complaint filed against Arvind Kejriwal and others in an alleged PWD scam.

The BJP came to power in UP only in March this year and already we have succeeded in making a major part of the state's roads free of potholes.

The fine, which is 65 times the license fee, will go on increasing if the party doesn't vacate the office.

In Delhi, roads and drains are maintained by the three municipal corporations and the PWD.  

The Uttar Pradesh government has failed to meet the deadline of making the state roads pot-hole free by June 15, as promised by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath with only 60 per cent of the task being accomplished till date.

In a press conference at the Civic Centre, the mayor alleged that the situation of the drains was the same as last year because desilting work has not begun.

Delhi Public Works Department (PWD) Minister Satyendar Jain on Tuesday ordered desilting of all PWD drains by June 7 to prevent water-logging on roads during the monsoon season.

The Delhi government has ordered inspection of construction sites and its residential colonies here to check breeding grounds for mosquitoes as it gears up to prevent possible outbreak of dengue and chikungunya.

Surender Kumar Bansal, who is the proprietor of Renu Construction, has been accused of submitting fake bills and invoices to the Public Works Department for a massive profit.

The Delhi High Court had on Thursday warned the city government officials with contempt of court action if the work was not completed to control waterlogging.

The Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) on Wednesday carried out searches at the offices of Delhi government's Transport Department and Public Works Department in connection with the alleged irregularities in dismantling of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor.

Vacuum cleaning and greening of roads began in the national capital on Thursday, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal informed.

Work on dismantling the controversial BRT corridor in the national capital began on Tuesday.