Public transport to education & health, AAP govt has transformed Delhi residents’ quality of life

The past decennary has besides witnessed Delhi’s ageing nationalist autobus fleet modulation to a mostly new, modern fleet of 7,683 buses, 25 per cent of which are electric— the largest fleet of nationalist buses and electrical buses successful India. By December 2025, Delhi’s fleet is expected to scope 10,480 buses, 80 per cent of which volition beryllium electric, making it the metropolis with the largest electrical autobus fleet successful the satellite extracurricular China. To code concerns of last-mile connectivity, implicit 2,000 mohalla buses — tiny air-conditioned electrical buses — are acceptable to beryllium added successful 2025 to link metro stations and large landmarks crossed the metropolis to adjacent residential areas.

The AAP government’s EV argumentation has turned Delhi into India’s EV superior with a 12 per cent registration complaint of EVs among caller vehicles, the highest successful India. Subsidies person led to the mounting up of implicit 5,400 charging points successful Delhi, the highest among each states and one-third of the full successful India. The AAP authorities has besides substantially invested successful decongesting Delhi’s roadworthy network, with 38 caller flyovers built implicit the past decennary compared to 62 until 2015. Over 10,000 km of roads and drains were built wrong Delhi’s implicit 1,700 unauthorised colonies — location to a 3rd of the city’s colonisation — drastically transforming their prime of life. Nearly three-and-a-half lakh CCTV cameras and 3 lakh thoroughfare lights person besides been installed crossed Delhi to escaped the streets of acheronian spots and code concerns of women’s safety.

Yet different notable alteration has been the proviso of 24×7 powerfulness supply, a acold outcry from the regular four-six hours of powerfulness cuts successful the summertime of 2014, and a effect of a monolithic upgradation of Delhi’s creaking, aged energy organisation infrastructure that AAP inherited.

The AAP authorities has besides made important headway successful providing entree to h2o and sanitation facilities to each household. Since 2015, implicit 7,300 km of h2o pipelines person been laid successful unauthorised colonies, resettlement colonies and agrarian villages, ensuring 100 per cent connectivity to these areas for the archetypal time. A large crushed for h2o contamination successful the Yamuna was the implicit deficiency of sewer lines wrong Delhi’s unauthorised colonies. Over 4,400 km of sewer lines person been laid connecting two-thirds of unauthorised colonies, with the remainder expected to beryllium connected successful the adjacent twelvemonth oregon two. Simultaneously, the capableness of existing sewage attraction plants was enhanced and caller plants acceptable up, ensuring that 75 per cent of Delhi’s sewage is treated earlier discharge successful Yamuna, compared to lone 55 per cent successful 2015.

Education and health, the 2 cardinal thrust areas of the Delhi exemplary of governance, person seen unprecedented growth. The AAP authorities built implicit 22,700 caller classrooms successful authorities schools successful the past decade, compared to 24,100 successful the preceding 7 decades. The infrastructure successful each existing schools was upgraded to world-class standards, with galore schools sporting A/C auditoriums, modern libraries, swimming pools, etc. Higher acquisition institutions person seen their full intake capableness doubling from 84,000 seats successful 2015 to 1.6 lakh successful 2024. Nearly 550 air-conditioned mohalla clinics person been acceptable up, with astir 2 crore patients visiting them successful 2023. All authorities hospitals saw large infrastructure upgrades, with full furniture capableness rising from 9,500 successful 2015 to 13,708 successful 2024.

In its 15 guarantees for the radical of Delhi for the adjacent 5 years, the AAP authorities has promised 3 landmark projects that volition instrumentality Delhi overmuch person to the imaginativeness of becoming a world-class city. With important advancement successful treating each of Delhi’s sewage, it has promised a cleanable Yamuna by 2030. It has besides promised to augment Delhi’s water-supply strategy to guarantee 24×7 cleanable h2o to each household. Based connected a palmy aviator of upgrading 40 km of Delhi’s roads to European standards, AAP has promised to upgrade the full 1,400-km web of Delhi’s widest roads to these standards with an outlay of Rs 19,000 crore.

None of the 20 BJP-governed states has shown commensurate advancement successful the past decade, and its way grounds of failures successful the nationalist superior basal successful crisp opposition to AAP’s achievements. Among its biggest infrastructure projects, stretches of the Pragati Maidan passageway built astatine a outgo of Rs 777 crore couldn’t past 1 monsoon and had to beryllium unopen down. The Dwarka expressway task was pulled up by the CAG for astronomical outgo escalations from Rs 18 crore/km to Rs 250 crore/km. What’s worse, the DDA’s 2041 masterplan for the metropolis that was scheduled to beryllium notified successful January 2022 is inactive pending, forcing the Supreme Court to enactment that “an utter messiness has been made successful the city”. These continuous failures marque it clear: The aboriginal of Delhi is unafraid lone with the AAP and Arvind Kejriwal arsenic Chief Minister.

Shah is an AAP person and writer of the publication The Delhi Model