The New Delhi Municipal Council on Tuesday approved the NDMC Right of Way (RoW) policy for areas under its jurisdiction for underground infrastructure and over ground telecommunication infrastructure.

In the meeting presided over by NDMC chairman Amit Yadav in the presence of Vice-Chairperson Satish Upadhyay, MLA & Member NDMC, Virender Singh Kadian, Council Members – Kuljeet Singh Chahal, Vishakha Shailani, Girish Sachdeva and Secretary, NDMC Krishna Mohan Uppu considered and approved the various citizen centric, employee welfare and infrastructure related proposals.

Setting up of 156 Communication Cellular Mobile Towers on Wheels (CoWs) in NDMC area” is going on for 3 groups of 52 towers in each group was awarded to M/s Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. for Group A and C with stipulated date of start and completion as 11.03.2019 to 10.03.2022 and M/s Indus Towers Ltd. for Group B with stipulated date of start and completion 23.03.2019 to 22.03.2022 respectively for the duration of 3 years. It is pertinent to mention here that at present total 148 CoWs in an existence due to constraint sites against the 156 CoWs.

The NDMC to adopt the RoW policy issued by the GNCTD. The NDMC has been mandated by the Act to formulate the policy in its jurisdiction. The rates per sq. ft. for tower/cell site/ CoW is very high as it sums up to Rs. 2.91 Lacs per CoW per month. NDMC levies the fixed charges in consonance with the directions issued by the Ministry of Urban Affairs (MoHUA).

The Council approved the Draft of “NDMC Right of Way (Row) Policy” for areas under jurisdiction of NDMC for underground infrastructure and over ground telecommunication infrastructure. The Chairman may issue guidelines for implementation of the Policy aligning it with the current scenario from time to time.

The important approved proposals are Request for Proposal (RFP) for Engagement of NGOs/Civil Society Organizations (CSOs)/Caterers/VO for Setting up of Semi-Automated Kitchen.

The NDMC implemented the Mid Day Meal scheme in August 2003 and 60 schools out of 82 schools were covered in the year 2003-04. At present, M/s Annamrita Foundation, M/s Akshaya Patra Foundation & M/s Manjeet Caterer are supplying freshly cooked mid-day meals in 44 schools.

The Council accord the approval to publish RFP for selection of NGO/CSOs/Caterers/Voluntary Organisations for setting up a Semi- Automated Kitchen, at his own cost, in the space available at Atal Adarsh Bengali Girl Sr. Secondary School, Gole Market, for cooking, supplying and serving freshly cooked hot mid-day meal under PM Poshan Scheme, as per the menu decided by NDMC to the 7000-8000 students of 06 (six) NDMC/Navyug schools in Gole Market area initially for a period of for three years and further extendable up to 2 more years subject to satisfactory performance of the mid-day meal supplier with the recommendations of Sub-Committee.