GMDA to test utilities along Dwarka Expressway

According to GMDA officials, the pending works need to be identified and completed to ensure these utilities become operational

The Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) has formed a three-member committee to identify pending works in the utilities (water, sewage and recycled water), which were shifted along the Dwarka Expressway during the road construction. Following a request by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to take over the utilities, GMDA said that it will first get them tested and commissioned before taking them over. While majority of the work has been completed, the authority said that there were still minor works left.

The Dwarka Expressway stretches for 29km from Mahipalpur in Delhi to Kherki Daula on the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway. (Parveen Kumar/HT photo)

As per GMDA officials, the pending works need to be identified and completed to ensure these utilities become operational.

“A three-member technical team comprising members, including NHAI representatives and project contractor, has been formed to identify the missing links. We have to test the utilities and commission these before taking them over,” said a senior GMDA official on condition of anonymity.

“The water supply, sewage and recycle water pipelines will be made functional once the utilities are taken over, and the developing sectors along the Dwarka expressway will benefit from these,” he added.

The official also said that by the end of the month, the committee is likely to formulate a cost estimate of the pending works, which will be done by GMDA. However, the cost has to be borne by the highway authority, he added.

The issue of taking over of the utilities along the Dwarka expressway was raised by NHAI chairman Santosh Kumar Yadav in his letter to the state government on February 22.

A senior NHAI official said that the shifting of master utilities has been completed. “They are completed and ready to be taken over by GMDA,” he said.