Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) from New Delhi Constituency, BJP National Spokeswoman & Supreme Court lawyer Mrs. Meenakshi Lekhi

The New Delhi Palate Festival 2014, an Indian version of the Taste of London, is a ongoing three-day fair, started on Friday, brings over 40 restaurant brands, 12 chefs, 3 embassies and 22 solo operators in the food business all at one place - the Nehru Park, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi.

Yesterday, I joined this biggest food festival Delhi has ever witnessed. Delhi, as the national capital, has been a melting pot for the entire country's cuisines and cultures. This palate festival will be a great way of bringing out our diversity with even greater grandeur along with other international cuisines. With Punjabi Farzi cafe to Chokola for the dessert lovers, from cooking classes to gourmet pop-ups - I wish everyone a weekend of tingling taste buds and culinary delights!

New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) came up with an idea of painting of kerbs, bollards and dividers in red/pink and green colours in parts of Council’s area. The New Delhi Municipal Council had decided to switch to these colours for aesthetic purposes; the red sandstone was to match the historical architecture in New Delhi and the green was to match with the landscape. 

NDMC tested these colours on Vinay Marg for a year and recorded that there was no objection to the change of colours. The intention behind this move may have been harmless, but, research shows that use of these colours can prove to be unsafe. 

I had already written a blog (http://blogs.economictimes.indiatimes.com/Chargesheet/use-road-safe-colours-for-kerbs-red-green-combination-unsafe-for-motorists/ ) on the subject matter covering the requisite technical aspects. 

In this regard backed by sound technical and related arguments well in favour of using conventional yellow - black colour scheme for dividers and kerbs, I took up the issue with Hon'ble Urban Development Minister Sh. Venkaiah Naidu Ji. After a detailed analysis on the subject and consultations, Hon'ble Minister in principle is of the same view of restoring the conventional colour coding that is yellow-black at sites where it was changed and continue with the same practice as usual thereafter.

Hence taking care of the consensus with Hon'ble Urban Development Minister on the issue of colour scheme all efforts will be put in this direction to restore to yellow-black and maintain the status quo thereafter. 

Its important to mention that no work on yellow and black has yet begun and on the contrary deliberately calling reddish pink as orange tantamounts to deceptive campaign of camouflaging wrongs! The idea is to move ahead by doing the course correction keeping in mind that, "What is required, should be done to achieve common good" and thats the function of politics!

In the end I will conclude by extending my sincere thanks to Hon'ble Urban Development Minister Shri Venkaiah Naidu Ji for agreeing to restore the colour scheme of dividers and kerbs to yellow-black from "faulty" pink/red-green ones!