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Finally, Jama Masjid redevelopment starts
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NEW DELHI: After years of delay, the Jama Masjid redevelopment plan will finally see light of the day. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has begun the first phase of redevelopment of the mosque precinct which includes cleaning up the area and putting up boards that will depict what the place will look like after the makeover.
While the civic body had accepted last month that the Rs 1,200-crore plan will miss its initial Commonwealth Games deadline, it has now begun the preliminary work. MCD has also started decongesting neighbouring areas like Subhash Marg and the road leading from Jama Masjid to Parade Ground.
An MCD official said: "This plan was cleared by the Unified Traffic and Transportation Infrastructure Planning and Engineering Centre in December last year." MCD will remove all encroachments in the area to implement its decongestion plan.
The orignal redevelopment plan was conceived four years ago and had been awaiting approval from various civic and heritage bodies. The proposal to redevelop was cleared by the MCD standing committee in September 2009. The plan was to redevelop and beautify the area around the historic mosque. Among other things, MCD had proposed to build a 60-foot-deep four-storeyed world heritage centre with shops, an auditorium, art galleries, studios, a library and a three-tier parking space for at least 4,500 cars.
In May, 2009, MCD got the Delhi Urban Art Commission's nod. But its original plan of building an underground parking space and a heritage mall was scrapped by the DUAC and the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).
While the civic body had accepted last month that the Rs 1,200-crore plan will miss its initial Commonwealth Games deadline, it has now begun the preliminary work. MCD has also started decongesting neighbouring areas like Subhash Marg and the road leading from Jama Masjid to Parade Ground.
An MCD official said: "This plan was cleared by the Unified Traffic and Transportation Infrastructure Planning and Engineering Centre in December last year." MCD will remove all encroachments in the area to implement its decongestion plan.
The orignal redevelopment plan was conceived four years ago and had been awaiting approval from various civic and heritage bodies. The proposal to redevelop was cleared by the MCD standing committee in September 2009. The plan was to redevelop and beautify the area around the historic mosque. Among other things, MCD had proposed to build a 60-foot-deep four-storeyed world heritage centre with shops, an auditorium, art galleries, studios, a library and a three-tier parking space for at least 4,500 cars.
In May, 2009, MCD got the Delhi Urban Art Commission's nod. But its original plan of building an underground parking space and a heritage mall was scrapped by the DUAC and the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).
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