New Delhi: Delhiites will have little respite to thousands of trucks from the capital every day. The major initiative to decongest the city, reducing pollution and making the roads safer – Rs 4.120 crore western and eastern peripheral fast – growing at a snail’s pace.The bypass roads that are ambitious, in Delhi, semi-circular belt, through arches in the east and Haryana on the west side are exposed to the deadline in July 2009 by a major brand . Only 12% of the work on WPE is complete while the construction is not yet start the EPE that the project has received only one bid, a monitoring committee of the Supreme Court said in a damning report presented to the court Summit friday.Both WPE (Kundl-Manesar-Palwal) and EPA (Sonepat-Baghpat-Ghaziabad), with a total length of 269 km, are lagging badly. The deadline is July 27 WPE, but the monitoring committee on the inspection revealed that only 12.2% of the work had been carried out by contractors until December 31, 2008 against the target 73.21%.The WPE 135.65 km long, was awarded on a build-operate-transfer (BOT), a dealer KMP Expressway, a special purpose vehicle formed by Madhucon, Apollo and DSC consortium on 14 November 2005 for a period of concession of 23 years and 9 months, including the three-year construction period.”During the committee meeting on 17 November 2008, the Committee noted the slow progress made by the concessionaire of WPE and requested the Chief Secretary of Haryana to provide detailed report with delays on different activities,”the report submitted to the SC said.A bench comprising Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan and Justices Arijit Pasayat and SH Kapadia asked for a report following a complaint filed by amicus curiae Harish Salve that the contractor had no money to proceed with construction. Land acquired, but no work on the e-modeNew Delhi: Detailing the progress, or lack thereof, on fast devices, including EPA (Sonepat-Baghpat-Ghaziabad), the Supreme Court Monitoring Committee has declared that 1310 hectares of a total of 13,560 hectares of land have been acquired, the work was yet to begin despite the detailed project report (DPR) being prepared on July 14, 2007.The only problem in assigning work to a contractor on the BOT basis has been receiving a single bid, despite numerous extension of the date of submission.”The starting date for submission of bids is 20 October 2008 and given the low response from the shortlist of bidders, it was extended up to five times at December 23, 2008 and even then, only one tender has been received before the deadline, “the committee said. ”The process of seeking the approval of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) for entering the single tender was launched in order to avoid delays …,” he said. Perfume this problem even earlier, the Committee asked Solicitor General GE Vahanvati and counsel for the Haryana government to file a report on progress in the WPE and EPE.The SC authorized the construction of two expressways to reduce the truck traffic on the roads of Delhi in the night. Most of the trucks using the city as a transit route. They are a major traffic problem and are involved in many fatal accidents.