The Times of India 23.11.2010
HUDA to offer alternative housing to encroachers
GURGAON: Before the next High Court hearing on 3 December HUDA is making all efforts to settle the matter with owners of over 500 illegal houses that are blocking Northern Peripheral Road (NPR) project.
The ambitious road projects aims to drastically reduce the travel time between Dwarka and Gurgaon.The two four-lane corridors have 30 metres of green belt on both sides, but the project has been stuck due to court cases. The total project has 18.5 km long road and majority of it is stuck in court cases.
Even though these houses are illegal, HUDA is ready to provide alternative housing to the affected, a source close with the developments said. But the encroachers are said to be demanding plots instead of alternative houses.
The HUDA officials admit that encroachments have sprawled in major chunk of the project land and it would be tough to remove them since many of them have got court stay orders. For HUDA, senior officials admit that the situation is going out of control: The delay is costing a lot because the city is being deprived of crucial road infrastructure because of encroachments. But the encroachers are more worried about pocketing money, said a senior HUDA official. The HUDA had carried out a detailed mapping of the entire 18.5 km NPR.
The road will connect Dwarka and National Highway-8 near Kherki Dhaula. Senior official claimed that the encroachers located near Kherki Dhaula are most difficult to handle as they are hell bent of pursuing the court case. This has been causing a lot of problems.
The litigation has derailed the project. On one end the HUDA is drawing up all the plans, international experts are being roped in to make it one of the futuristic road projects but on the other end we are still grappling to clear encroachments, said the official.
HUDA official claimed that the authority would submit in the high court about the proposal of providing alternative houses to all the encroachers after they vacate the land.
The ambitious road projects aims to drastically reduce the travel time between Dwarka and Gurgaon.The two four-lane corridors have 30 metres of green belt on both sides, but the project has been stuck due to court cases. The total project has 18.5 km long road and majority of it is stuck in court cases.
Even though these houses are illegal, HUDA is ready to provide alternative housing to the affected, a source close with the developments said. But the encroachers are said to be demanding plots instead of alternative houses.
The HUDA officials admit that encroachments have sprawled in major chunk of the project land and it would be tough to remove them since many of them have got court stay orders. For HUDA, senior officials admit that the situation is going out of control: The delay is costing a lot because the city is being deprived of crucial road infrastructure because of encroachments. But the encroachers are more worried about pocketing money, said a senior HUDA official. The HUDA had carried out a detailed mapping of the entire 18.5 km NPR.
The road will connect Dwarka and National Highway-8 near Kherki Dhaula. Senior official claimed that the encroachers located near Kherki Dhaula are most difficult to handle as they are hell bent of pursuing the court case. This has been causing a lot of problems.
The litigation has derailed the project. On one end the HUDA is drawing up all the plans, international experts are being roped in to make it one of the futuristic road projects but on the other end we are still grappling to clear encroachments, said the official.
HUDA official claimed that the authority would submit in the high court about the proposal of providing alternative houses to all the encroachers after they vacate the land.
