PWD to take up greenery and cleanliness work on 10 DU roads

New Delhi: Public Works Department (PWD) is going to take up greenery maintenance and cleanliness work on Delhi University’s roads at the North Campus.A company will be hired for the maintenance of these roads. Damage to plants and any ground cover along the roadsides will be fixed and horticulture waste will be removed from the green areas, among other things.One of the roads is Chhatra Marg, which starts from Vishwavidyalaya metro station and serves as the main road connecting major sections of the university and the colleges nearby. The road already has fully grown trees on the side, but the shrubs and other plants on the ground under these trees need care, PWD said.Another important road is GTB Marg, which passes through GTB Nagar — a popular hangout for scores of students due to several restaurants and cafes there. Hudson lane also has a large number of eateries and is congested due to people parking vehicles on the side.Other roads that will be covered are Sudhir Bose Marg, which passes near the famous St. Stephen’s College, and Shreya Mishra Marg that links to Chhatra Marg passes by the department of zoology on one side and Vallabhai Patel Chest Institute on the other side. Mishra was a DU student who died due to an accident on the road.Other roads include the Thekedar Surjeet Singh Marg, Jahanara Road, Polo Road and Bhama Shah Road. Some of these roads are connected to the posh Civil Lines area where residences of chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and LG VK Saxena and cabinet ministers are located.After studies pointed out that roads without any green cover are dusty, in 2022, the government ordered PWD to identify such stretches and carry out greenery work. While this work was carried out to control dust on roads as it is a major factor in checking pollution, the maintenance of greenery has been a major challenge for the department.The PWD is supposed to maintain central verges and roadsides of around 1,400 km of roads.