New Delhi:
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday assured that "everything will be in place" and Commonwealth Games Village and venues will be made "spic and span" before the commencement of the sporting extravaganza.
"All the work at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Commonwealth Games Village and other venues will be over and everything will be in place before the commencement of the Games on October 3," she said after inaugurating a 220 KV substation near the IGI airport.
She said that even in other countries the work continued till the inaugural ceremony and "such things do happen but I can assure you that everything will be in place".
The Delhi Chief Minister, on reports of pilferage or theft in the Commonwealth Games Village, suggested the everybody should lock their room while leaving it.
The 220KV sub-station has been established by Delhi Transco Limited in order to provide uninterrupted power supply to the swanky new integrated terminal 3 (T-3) of the IGI airport.
"This sub-station will not only provide uninterrupted power supply to T3, but also the high speed Delhi Metro's Airport Line Express and other adjoining areas," Dikshit said.
Larson and Toubro has completed the Rs 250 crore project on turnkey basis using 220 KV Gas Insulated Switchgear (GIS) from a Korean company for which six kilometre long underground cable was laid to connect the substation with 400KV Bamnauli sub-station on one end and with 220 KV Mehrauli sub-station at the other.
International flight operations from the new terminal started from in July but the domestic operations could not begin, as proposed in August, as the power supply was inadequate to run all the equipment like baggage conveyor belts and others.
After a visit to T3, the officials from Civil Aviation Ministry and other related department deferred the shifting of domestic flight operations T3.
It is now expected that the domestic flight operation is likely to shift to last week of October or after Diwali.