The Delhi High Court today said the "quibbling" between development authority DDA and DU over construction of an access road to a site earmarked for setting up colleges has led to the project not taking off for the last 29 years.
A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar observed that the land, in Roshanpura village of Najafgarh in South West Delhi, was given free of cost to the Delhi University (DU) in 1989 by the gram sabha for setting up colleges and a campus there.
"However, authorities (DDA and DU) are quibbling over the issue of construction of a road," the court noted and directed them as well as the Delhi government and the Surface Transport Ministry to hold a meeting for devising an action plan for providing access to the site in question.
The bench said the action plan and a report be placed before it within eight weeks and listed the matter for further hearing on August 6.
The observation came after the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) said it had written to the varsity asking it to pay for the road construction, but there has been no reply till date from the varsity.
The court told DU, "Since 1989 you have the land. It was given free of cost. Do you know what would be its cost now? Do you know how much the cost of construction would have gone up now? But you are not bothered."