MOHALI: Peripheral areas of Mohali are set to get an infrastructural boost in the coming months with the state government on Monday approving close to Rs eight crore for various developmental works in the areas. In the Mohali divisional review meeting chaired by chief minister Parkash Singh Badal and attended by Mohali deputy commissioner Parveen Kumar, district planning board chairman Narinder Kumar Sharma, Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) chief administrator Vivek Partap Singh and chief engineer along with senior engineer of public health department on Monday, a full report on developmental works being carried out was presented before the CM. The report stated that most projects were on schedule for a December completion as per their deadline set in an earlier review meet.

Developmental works relating to sewerage, roads and water supply in surrounding areas of Mohali city like Balongi, Kumbra, Kambali, Sohana, Mauli, Manauli and Daon were discussed during the review meeting and Rs 1.8 crore in Kumbra, Rs 85 lakh in Kambali and Rs 5 crore in Sohana were approved for upgrading the existing road infrastructure.

Villages leading to Mohali city like Mauli, Balongi and Manauli would soon get CFL streetlights installed in them and for this purpose Rs 4 crore was approved. Also, broken roads in Sectors 76 to 79 of Mohali city are set to be revamped with tenders for re-carpeting being ordered to be floated by the first week of December.

Speaking to TOI, the district planning board chairman said that in the last review meeting it was decided that renovation works of all community and residential parks would be carried out and for that fresh tenders would be invited, and it was communicated to the CM that no bidders had shown interest in the project. He said, "In the meeting on Monday it was decided that fresh tenders would be invited within a week to ten days and that the reserve price would be lowered to attract more bidders."