In a relief for soldiers, Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Saturday laid the foundation stone for the construction of a Foot Over Bridge (FOB) at the Rajputana Rifles Regimental Centre in Delhi Cantonment, near Ring Road.

The bridge, a long-pending demand of the soldiers posted there, will be built to make their daily movement safe and convenient, officials said.

The Rajputana Rifles Centre is spread across both sides of Ring Road, with training grounds located separately from the main campus. The lack of either an FOB or a subway has compelled soldiers to use an underground drainage culvert to cross the road and reach the parade ground.

Speaking at the event, Gupta said that for years, soldiers had struggled to cross the road using a narrow underpass, which becomes waterlogged durin

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