Work on dismantling the 5.8-km stretch will begin from January 18; it was built at a cost of Rs.150 crore in 2008 by the then Congress government By February, Delhi’s only Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor will be history. The Delhi government had decided to dismantle the BRT corridor in July 2015 and Public Works Department (PWD) Minister Satyender Jain said on Tuesday that work on the same will begin from January 18 and will be wrapped up by February. The 5.8-km long stretch from Moolchand to Ambedkar Nagar was built at a cost of about Rs. 150 crore in 2008 by the then Congress government. The corridor has had its share of controversies and a proposed second phase of the stretch could never take off. The Aam Aadmi Party government wanted to start the work after the odd-even scheme comes to an end on January 15. As part of its first phase, street infrastructure that is part of the corridor will be removed. This will include removing the low level road dividers meant for bus lanes, bus stops in the middle of the road, etc. In the second phase, the government plans to engage residents of the nearby areas to prepare a comprehensive plan on redesigning the stretch. For this purpose, the government is looking forward to consultations with local Residents Welfare Associations, Mr. Jain said. The government has also engaged a consultant to come up with the plan, he added. To ensure that the dismantling work doesn't lead to chaos on a stretch known for its traffic congestion, the work will be carried out only at night The BRT corridor, known as the High Capacity Bus System in its earlier avatar, took quite some time to come up and there were plans to build more such corridors across the city. The corridor was built by the Delhi Integrated Multi-Modal Transit System, a joint-venture company of the Delhi government and Infrastructure Development Finance Corporation. The government has also floated tenders for the vacuum cleaning of roads and also for instant and on-the-spot repairing of pot holes of PWD roads. Mr. Jain said that on Sunday, the government is also going to inaugurate an elevated road between Mangolpuri and Madhuban Chowk in northwest Delhi, which is part of a project to make Outer Ring Road signal-free. The entire stretch is 3.90-km long with a 2.60-km elevated stretch from Som Vihar Chowk to Deepali Chowk. He said the government is going to provide extra classrooms at 800 schools across Delhi, which will help accommodate more students. He said tenders for construction of extra classrooms have already been floated and the work is expected to be completed by June 30. The government is also going to start a helpline to receive complaints and answer queries regarding maintenance issues in Delhi government schools. Mr. Jain said the service provider will be engaged by the government to create a call centre, from where the helpline will be operated. One call centre will act as the control room from which four helplines will be operational. Work on dismantling the Bus Rapid Transit corridor will begin from January 18