Plan to decongest Pankha Rd stuck at planning stage

A proposal to decongest Pankha Road - a key 6km stretch in west Delhi - has remained stuck at the consultancy stage for the past decade, with five tenders for the project eliciting only one bid, a status report filed by the Public Works Department (PWD) has revealed.

Pankha Road connects Uttam Nagar (near the bus terminal) and Cariappa Marg (in Delhi Cantt), and is frequently mired by traffic snarls - commuting from end to end can take up to 40 minutes during rush hour.

"The stretch has multiple residential colonies on one side, and dozens of unauthorised colonies on the other side. Due to this, there is often a traffic jam on this road, especially during the evening peak hours," a senior PWD official said.

To lighten the traffic load on this stretch, PWD in February 2014 proposed the construction of two flyovers on the road one between Dabri Circle and Cariappa Marg, and a second flyover from Dabri to Uttam Nagar.