New Delhi has dramatically improved

During his recent visit to New Delhi this month for the country’s Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2011 event, Overseas Congress General Secretary, Mrs Avtar Singh Sandhu MBE was most impressed. Explaining to various government ministers during his stay in New Delhi, he explained how since his last visit 12 months ago the capital had improved. From the brand new airport terminal through to the roads, traffic signals, pavements public transport network and most of all the lack of pollution. “Although each morning the fog has been very thick in patchy in places, it is nice to see New Delhi’s taxis, busses and three wheelers NOT throwing out horrific exhaust fumes. All of these along with the Metro is making our capital city a much, much more pleasant place to walk and enjoy the surroundings” said Mr Sandhu. At his various meetings and discussions with senior government ministers and officials, general secretary Sandhu took great pride in explaining that the improvement is clearly visible. As Mr Sandhu mentioned, we are all aware that this was all done as a result of the Commonwealth Games in 2010, but even then, “this has proved that we have started the task of cleaning and developing our cities to make them alot more visitor friendly”.

These are the views of General Secretary Mr Avtar Sandhu MBE, if you have travelled to New Delhi recently, please email us you thoughts and experiences which you feel my be of interest to others. We are all aware that India has come a long way and YES the country still has a long was to go, but its great to know that we can roll the clean up and improvement model of New Delhi to other parts of India.

We look forward to hearng your views on the capital’s development.