I received a mail from Group Captain (retd) S.C. Sharma who writes, “I am a retired IAF officer and a senior citizen now. Like many others, a large number of us, serving officers and their families visit the Defence Services Officers Institute (DSOI), located at Dhaula Kuan, for various cultural, social, sports and other activites/programmes.

“Unfortunately, a bus-stand has been created there a few years ago in such a manner that it causes great trouble for vehicles trying to enter the DSOI. Since the buses, autorickshaws and other vehicles seriously keep on standing outside the entrance gate of the DSOI, it causes extreme problems for us to enter the DSOI.

“I learnt from the DSOI authorities that this problem has been projected to the traffic police and other civil authorities immediately after the said bus stand was created but to no avail. Is it that things will be rectified only when a serious accident takes place? Is it too much to accept from our civil authorities to relocate the said bus stand about 50 yds away from the entrance gate of the DSOI to help officers and their families avail facilities at an Institute whose very beauty has been destroyed by the creation of the said bus stand?”

Development of bus stop and making of bus bays was in the original plan of Dhaula Kuan grade separator. However, everything went haywire after the government failed to execute the whole Dhaula Kuan flyover project in one go. Now the development and construction of proper bus bays is in the hands of NHAI. God knows when will they start developing this place. Right now one can just pray that they do this work soon. Regarding traffic police not shifting the temporary arrangement of not shifting the bus stop, maybe they don’t have any other alternative on this side as on the opposite side, changes already have taken place.