{"id":13320,"date":"2009-08-09T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/response-from-urban-minister-abou\/"},"modified":"2018-06-04T17:29:04","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T17:29:04","slug":"response-from-urban-minister-abou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/response-from-urban-minister-abou\/","title":{"rendered":"Response from Urban Minister about faulty Dwarka Flyover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>M. K. Gupta<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>FAULTY DWARKA FLYOVER<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>110. SHRI RAMDAS AGARWAL<\/p>\n<p>Will the Minister of URBAN DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:-<\/p>\n<p>(a) whether Government has carried out any study for the faulty four kilometre Dwarka Flyover constructed over the Delhi-Rewari railway crossing three years ago which has claimed nine deaths on the stretch in one week recently on account of disastrous planning by DDA;<\/p>\n<p>(b) if so, the findings of the study team in this regard indicating also whether the persons found guilty were taken to task; and<\/p>\n<p>(c) the preventive measures that Government has taken so far to stop such accidents on Palam-Dwarka flyover in future?<\/p>\n<p><strong>ANSWER<\/strong><br \/>THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT<br \/>( SHRI SAUGATA ROY )<\/p>\n<p>(a): No, Sir. The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has, however, informed that the Dwarka flyover was constructed over the Delhi-Rewari railway crossing after a proper study by the Feasibility Consultant. DDA has informed that the accidents have not occurred on account of disastrous planning but because of over-speeding and negligence on part of drivers.<\/p>\n<p>(b): Does not arise in view of (a) above.<\/p>\n<p>(c): DDA has further informed that based on the recommendations of the Unified Traffic &amp; Transportation Infrastructure (Planning &amp; Engineering) Centre, DDA, the following preventive measures have been taken for the future:<\/p>\n<p>(i) Additional warning-signs in the accident prone area have been placed in consultation with the Traffic Police.<br \/>(ii) Reflectors speed strips have been painted.<br \/>(iii) Soft speed breakers have been provided.<br \/>(iv) Reflector strips have been provided on the railings of crash barriers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M. K. Gupta FAULTY DWARKA FLYOVER 110. SHRI RAMDAS AGARWAL Will the Minister of URBAN DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:- (a) whether Government has carried out any study for the faulty four kilometre Dwarka Flyover constructed over the Delhi-Rewari railway crossing three years ago which has claimed nine deaths on the stretch in one week recently on account of disastrous planning by DDA; (b) if so, the findings of the study team in this regard indicating also whether the persons found guilty were taken to task; and (c) the preventive measures that Government has taken so far to stop such <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1881],"class_list":["post-13320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update","tag-news-events-dwarka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48780,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13320\/revisions\/48780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}