Walia irked over fading CWG sheen
Delhi urban development and finance minister A.K. Walia on Monday expressed concern at the poor upkeep of the infrastructure created for the Commonwealth Games while noting “the diminishing sheen of Delhi which was at the top during the event”.
Dr Walia has shot off letters to heads of various departments, while noting the inadequacies in the upkeep of the Games infrastructure.
He has also mentioned damage to greenery, parks and well-maintained, landscaped and illuminated monuments of rich heritage value. Dr Walia has cautioned all the authorities that with continued damage to the costly, modern infrastructure, there is bound to be an irreparable loss to the city’s glory.
Dr Walia stated: “If such negligence continued over the next few months, the infrastructure may suffer substantial damage making revival a Herculean task.”
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Man arrested with heroin
AGE CORRESPONDENT
New Delhi
Jan. 31: A team of the Delhi police’s crime branch arrested a 24-year-old man and seized 450 grams of heroin worth around `45 lakhs.
The accused, Sahiruddin, was apprehended from Connaught Place on Sunday by a team of crime branch’s narcotics wing when he came to supply the contraband to a customer, said the police. A case under relevant sections of the NDPS Act has been registered against him.
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