India’s presidency of the G20 has been commemorated in a municipal park in south Delhi with a giant thematic logo of the influential grouping and flags of member nations mounted atop 20 decorative pillars installed in its lush gardens.
The park is located in the Greater Kailash area. MLA Saurabh Bharadwaj said the heads of state and other delegates who will come for the G20 Summit next month should remember the warmth extended by the city and its people.
The G20 Leaders Summit is slated to be held on September 9–10, and a large number of prominent roads and other areas in the city have been cleaned and beautified in the run-up to the mega event that will be hosted at the newly-built international convention centre at Pragati Maidan.
Bhardwaj says many local residents have already started calling the park located in front of M Block Market at Greater Kailash-2 the ‘G20 park’, even though it has not been formally named so.
The placement of the pillars in a semicircular arc behind the main G20 logo has been done in an open arena fashion.
“The 20 pillars, made of concrete mix with a wooden texture over them, bear a Gothic design, carrying a flag each on top. The idea was to create the look of a Greek amphitheatre,” a senior official in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) said.
Two artists and 10 labourers worked on this project for the last couple of months, he said.
Delhi BJP accuses Kejriwal govt of taking credit for G20 Prep
New Delhi: The Delhi BJP on Tuesday accused the Arvind Kejriwal government of taking credit for G20 preparations, the majority of which, it claimed, was being done by the central government.
No immediate reaction was available from the AAP government over the BJP’s charge. It is “shameful” for the ministers of the Kejriwal government to take credit for the G20 preparations, Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva said in a press conference. He further said the central government has so far spent Rs 4,064 crore for G20, while the Kejriwal government has spent only Rs 51 crore.
