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About 14 months after the idea to make the stretch between the Indira Gandhi Airport and Dhaula Kuan signal-free was mooted and about two months after Housing Minister Hardeep Singh Puri laid the foundation stone of the project, the National Highways Authority of India would not start the construction work. The Supreme Court’s Central Empowered Committee recently gave the highways development agency the permission to fell trees as it goes ahead to build infrastructure projects that would rid the always-in-use stretch of its almost-always –existing traffic jams.

LED lighting in India has picked up pace in the past two years after the government launched the Domestic Efficient Lighting Programme coupled by various municipalities adopting LED streetlights. A story which witnessed lukewarm response initially due to the high price of the bulb, is now gaining momentum as the demand and competition grow in the market and the prices see a dip. Read here to know more about India's LED story and it's success so far.

More than Rs 2,000-crore funds collected by the Delhi MCDs for development of parking sites were diverted to other expenditures. The North Delhi Municipal Corporation used Rs 1,642.55 crore out of the Rs 1,772.13 crore, collected between 2006-17, as employee-related expenditure. On the other hand, the East Delhi Municipal Corporation used Rs 18.16 crore out of the Rs 49.95 crore, collected between 2012-17, as salaries.

After a demolition drive in Asola on March 14 and in Mehrauli on April 12, the South Delhi task force recently carried out a drive in Adhchini. Forty-year-old shops and a room that was found to be encroaching were razed. Not just these places, in March, the Delhi Traffic Police were able to remove encroachments from 32.5 km of roads in the national capital.

Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport is now among the top 20 busiest airports in the world with a yearly traffic of 63 million. To keep up with the growing footfall and serve the flyers better Delhi International Airport Ltd is planning to expand the existing terminals. Also, the Delhi Metro will be expanding its services to the Terminal 1 through the Magenta Line which would be fully operational by the end of April.