New Delhi, Jan. 26 -- The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has completed the redevelopment of landscaped modern crematorium at Sarai Kale Khan under a Rs.5-crore project and finishing touches are being provided to the facility before it opens within the next few months, senior municipal officials said. Located along Yamuna floodplains, the Sarai Kale Khan unit is expected to reduce the load on Nigam Bodh Ghat facility.

A senior MCD official said that this will be fourth large crematorium in Delhi located on the riverbank. "Our team had visited the Banjara hills facility to study their model cremation facility and several features have been borrowed from that site. It has 16-pyre platforms, while two separate pyre platforms have been ...