Delhi CM Kejriwal Inaugurates Revamped Chandni Chowk Stretch, Says Area Will Be ‘Transformed Into Tourist Hub’

Asserting it has now become the “most important tourist destination”, he said the people from all over the city are coming to see the redeveloped Chandni Chowk market.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal (Picture Credit: PTI)

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal inaugurated the newly redeveloped Chandni Chowk market here on Sunday and said the entire area will be transformed into a tourist hub by allowing the street food joints to operate till midnight.

Asserting it has now become the “most important tourist destination”, he said the people from all over the city are coming to see the redeveloped Chandni Chowk market.

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Kejriwal said that Chandni Chowk has become more beautiful after the redevelopment.

“It has already become an important tourist place. I came to know that people come here to roam till 12 a.m. Street food joints will be allowed to open for 3-4 more hours till 12 a.m. so that people can come here in the night and enjoy,” Kejriwal said.

“Lots of street food joints will be opened after closure of the market,” he added addressing the gathering near Fountain Chowk in the Chandni Chowk main market.  

The Delhi Chief Minister further said Chandni Chowk has now become beautiful and aesthetically appealing, adding that earlier broken roads, dangling wires and traffic congestion were synonymous with the area.

“We have beautified almost 1.4 km stretch of the Chandni Chowk market and made it extremely beautiful. Traffic on the stretch was improved, dangling wires were made underground, CCTVs were installed under the redevelopment project,” he said, PTI reported.

The main Chandni Chowk stretch between the Red Fort and the Fatehpuri Masjid crossing has been improved and beautified in the redevelopment project, which was to be inaugurated earlier on April 17 this year but was cancelled due to the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.

This stretch has been made a “no traffic zone” for the motorised vehicles between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m.

The work on the project, which was approved in August 2018, began in December the same year, said the Public Works Department (PWD) officials.

The project was to be completed in March 2020 but got delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic and its deadline was further pushed to December the same year.