Overview
- Rekha Gupta set an end-March cutoff for all tendering and told departments to finish ongoing road and drainage works before the monsoon, stressing close inter-agency coordination.
- She reiterated that budgets will not be a constraint and warned that delays or laxity will not be tolerated.
- The programme spans basic civic infrastructure such as roads, drains, water supply, streetlights, parks, community and school buildings, as well as footbridges.
- Under CMDF, 3,812 projects worth about ₹1,798.85 crore have administrative approval, with implementation by MCD, Irrigation and Flood Control, DJB, PWD, DSIIDC and TPDDL, and most works routed through the MCD.
- Rural and Trans-Yamuna works include 707 DVDB projects of about ₹1,557 crore—411 with Irrigation and Flood Control, 293 with MCD, three with DSIIDC—and 799 TYADB projects of about ₹430 crore.