New Delhi, Nov. 11 -- The Delhi government plans to extend the Sonia Vihar embankment road from Wazirabad Road to Zero Pusta in the Yamuna floodplains to improve connectivity in trans-Yamuna areas and provide access to a proposed ferry service complex, even as environmental activists have raised concerns over the ecological impact of further infrastructure development in the already encroached floodplain.

The Irrigation and Flood Control Department has initiated the process of appointing consultants and surveyors to conduct a feasibility study for extending service roads along the embankment and finalising the alignment of an additional road along the existing left flood bund (Sonia Vihar), from Sonia Vihar Pusta to the Water Sports Club...