Members of the Dwarka Expressway Welfare Association (Dxp Association) are planning a peaceful protest outside the residence of state Public Works Department (PWD) minister Rao Narbir Singh in Civil Lines on April 8. The protest will be held to demand the development of basic civic infrastrure in residential sectors along the expressway, also called the Northern Peripheral Road (NPR), mainly the laying of sewage pipes, water supply pipelines and roads.
The association has sent messages to all its members and associated homebuyers to reach Civil Lines around 9 am.
Many of the association's members are residents of more than 50 societies along the expressway that have no sewer or water connections.
Yashesh Yadav, president of the Dxp Association, said, “I live in Sector 110 A in a private society that gets water from the Basai treatment plant daily through private tankers. But there is no water line laid by HUDA. There isn't even provision for sewage disposal.”
“We will hold the protest so the Haryana government gives us basic civic infrastructure in sectors 81-115, along the Dwarka Expressway,” said Pradip Rahi, general secretary of the association.
“It has been almost a decade since HUDA planned the NPR, but why has the infrastructure never been taken care of? There are nearly two lakh people living in private societies along the Dwarka Expressway who are deprived of basic infrastructural necessities,” Yadav added.
