Deer Park visit of Sh Ajay Makan

It was in February 2010 that Shri Ajay Maken, then Minister of Urban Development, Govt. of India, visited District Park/Deer Park at the instance of a specific request of Efforts Group to see for himself the dilapidated condition of District Park. A number of residents from all over of the adjoining colonies greeted him at the District Park gate where Pankaj Agarwal, General Secretary, Efforts Group, explained various issues concerning proper maintenance of the complex supposed to be giving healthy environments to the colonies around. A memorandum containing different issues pertaining to District Park/Deer Park/Rose Garden was presented to the Minister. Honorable Minister endorsed the memorandum to all concerned of DDA for appropriate action.

Efforts Group pursued the matter at all levels of DDA and  regular meetings to review the progress were conducted by the Coordination Committee constituted of certain DDA officials and delegates of Efforts Group/RWAs. Monthly meetings are  being  & conducted on first Friday of every month to review the progress on various issues.

Shri Ajay Maken revisited District Park today morning in order to review and inspect the development /progress of work in District Park/Deer Park/Rose Garden. A huge number of residents from Safdarjung Enclave, Arjun Nagar, Humayunpur, Krishna Naagar, Green Park, SDA etc  assembled at the District Park in the early morning and greeted Shri Maken with sense of gratefulness for having ensured  & that progress indeed is achieved.

Also present in the morning were DDA’s Sr. officers  ie  Supd Engineer D.K.Goyel, Executive Engineer B.K.Sharma, Director (Horticulture) M P Nim,  DDH Shri Brij Lal ,  EE Shri BB Guruwan, AE S.K.Gaur, ADH Shri Bijendra Singh  & many other officials.  From Efforts Group were   General Secretary Shri Pankaj Agarwal, Shri S S Rudra, Shri Sudarshan Sobti, Shri S L Watwani, Shri I D Sharma & Shri Anil Saigal.

 Shri Maken appreciated the good work done by DDA’s Shri A K Pandit, Chief Engineer ( SZ)  & other DDA’s . He also complimented Mr Pankaj Agarwal & his Efforts Group’s team for their untiring efforts in helping Govt agencies in bringing much needed improvements in these parks. He also assured the residents that still further steps shall be taken to bring these parks/garden to the best standards and particularly ensured about improvement in the lake to render it as a standard one. He assured residents that very shortly he will visit again to see the other initiated works.

Mr Pankaj Agarwal also informed to the gathering that forth coming project of covering of Naala from Bhika Ji Cama to Raj Nagar is efforts of Mr Ajay Maken, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit & Prof Kiran Walia who took lot of efforts in the sanction of this project.

Mr Pankaj Agarwal also requested the Hon’ble Minister for sanction of Sports complex, relocating of SDM ( Vasant Vihar ) office  from Kapashera & also Safdarjung Enclave’s Police Station  also  near Trauma Center where lot of land is available. Even he requested that a walk way be made from near Kamal Cinema to Metro Station Safdarjung Hospital.

S L Watwani