India, July 17 -- New Delhi

The personnel of Rajputana Rifles may have to wait longer for a foot overbridge to commute to their parade ground, given that there is no clear timeline for construction and the issue is unlikely to be resolved this monsoon, officials aware of the matter said on Wednesday.

On May 26, HT highlighted how thousands of soldiers of the Rajputana Rifles, the oldest rifle regiment of the Indian Army, located in Delhi Cantonment, negotiate a smelly culvert that overflows during rains on their way to the parade ground due to the absence of a safe crossing. They do this four times a day-twice before breakfast and twice after dusk-even as the Delhi government has failed to build a foot overbridge despite multiple reques...