Covid impact! Work delayed on Chandni Chowk, DND-Ashram & other infra projects in Delhi; deadlines revised

For most of the ongoing infrastructure projects across Delhi, the deadlines have been revised by over two months owing to the COVID-19 pandemic-induced lockdown that put a pause in the development work of the projects as labourers started leaving for their hometowns. Though work on most of these projects has resumed, the pace still remains sluggish. A Public Works Department (PWD) official was quoted in an IE report that around 50 per cent of labourers have returned back and development work will start in full swing by early July. The deadlines of the projects will be revised on a case-to-case basis, the PWD official further said.