The Time of India            09.11.2010

'Land for Mohali, Kharar stretch soon'

MOHALI: After hanging fire for over an year, the process to construct a bypass road to reduce vehicular movement on Mohali-Kharar stretch has begun. Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) is checking land records to start plot acquisition process.

Sources said after GMADA identified the land, it would issue notices under Sections 4 of Punjab Land Acquisition Act after taking due clearance from district administration. GMADA is also mulling over to identify land for residential urban estate along the proposed road, they added.

'We have started the process to check revenue records to acquire plots for the road and urban estate projects. Acquisition would start in the next seven-eight months,' said GMADA additional chief administrator Balwinder Singh Multani.

Earlier, the district administration had planned to construct a bypass between Sector 39 in Chandigarh and Khanpur to reduce traffic on Mohali-Kharar stretch on NH-21 but the project failed to take off. Now, GMADA would construct the path between Dara Studio in Phase-VI and Khanpur near Kurali to divert traffic coming from Chandigarh and Ropar side by decongesting the Mohali-Kharar killer stretch.