Picture a highway in a European metropolis, with separate lanes for automobiles and bicycles and huge pavements for pedestrians. Nine months in the past, that is what the Delhi authorities promised — a “world class” transformation in the way in which town commutes — whereas presenting its annual finances. Fast ahead to at the moment and the bottom actuality is way more of a bumpy experience, stuffed with cracks and quite a few potholes.
Why can’t the federal government businesses perform repairs, one could ask. According to Public Works Department (PWD) officers, their arms are tied by budgetary constraints and fund crunch. The authorities, nevertheless, blames it on forms’s “inflexible” and “obstructionist approach” ever for the reason that GNCTD (Amendment) Act, which has granted management of providers to the Lieutenant Governor, was handed.
“The PWD Minister has been carrying out a series of meetings every week to ensure the maintenance of the national capital’s… pavements, roads and footpaths… Officers don’t follow the instructions issued by the minister in charge. Files have been kept in the offices for years and requisite funds aren’t being released to carry out revamping of roads,” the Delhi authorities stated in response to questions posed by The Indian Express.
In Mehrauli, a Mughal-sponsored temple is a testomony to Delhi’s syncretic roots
From a Mughal-sponsored construction to a concrete building, the Yogmaya Temple in Mehrauli is a traditionally essential monument believed to be standing on the website of an historical temple that’s stated to have come up throughout the interval of the Mahabharata however of which no hint exists anymore.
A noble within the courtroom of Mughal Emperor Akbar II by the title of Lala Sidhu Mal constructed the temple between 1806 and 1837. The space was generally known as Yoginipura in historical Jain texts and Prithviraj Chauhan himself was stated to have patronised a Yogini temple right here shortly earlier than his metropolis’s destruction. Lala Sidhu Mal, also called Sed Mal, constructed his temple on the positioning the place an historical Yogini Temple is believed to have existed.
Today, elements of the construction constructed within the 1800s may be seen on the positioning of the temple earlier than it was renovated within the Sixties. It now stands as a dilapidated building, with the partitions of the construction worn out and stuffed with cracks, and paint peeling off.
