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22 Nov 2012
Hindustan Times (Delhi)
The much awaited northern peripheral road (NPR) project, which connects Delhi with Gurgaon, is likely to miss its deadline of December 2.
This is the Haryana government?s biggest ever project in terms of the width (150m) of the expressway, connecting Dwarka in west Delhi and Kherki Daula. The NH-8 is only 75m wide.
The total length of the NPR, also known as Dwarka Expressway, is 18km of which the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) had awarded only 14km. The contract was given to JSR Construction Pvt Ltd and Indiabulls Construction Limited, who are working jointly.
The project was awarded on April 1 last year, with a completion deadline of one year that expired on March 31 this year. The HUDA extended its deadline by six months and later set its deadline as December 2.
According to a HUDA official, the bituminous work is complete only on 6km stretch till date.
On the rest of the 14km stretch, the HUDA official said, ?Work is in full swing on the awarded length.?
Earlier in April, HUDA officials had said that 14km length of the NPR would be completed latest by October and there would be no further extension.
?We are closely monitoring the work progress and are hopeful that the October deadline will be the final,? the then executive engineer, HUDA had said.
The unawarded 4km stretch is stuck in legal tangle as hundreds of local people have moved court demanding fair compensation from the Haryana government.
?Until the government gives us compensation as directed by the PunjabandHaryanaHigh Courtin 2006-07, we will not allow the NPR work to take place,? said Rishi Raj Rana, area councilor.
The NPR starts from Dwarka in west Delhi and passes through Bijwasan, New Palam Vihar, Kherki Daula and finally meets at NH-8. HUDA Sectors 83 to 113 are located along this expressway. There will be a commercial belt touching Sectors 105, 106, 109,110, 110A, 111, 112 and 113 with Sectors 100 and 101 being for public utilities.
Sectors 114 and 88 are fully commercial. Other residential sectors that are a little far away from the expressway but will benefit from it are Sectors 81-86, 89-93 and 95.
?The delay is a sign of the negligence of the government. The government is not ready to realise that tens of thousands of people have invested their hard earned money in upcoming properties along the NPR,? said Navin Raheja, president of the National Realty Development Council (NRDC) of India. SOUTHERN PERIPHERAL ROAD Like the northern peripheral road (NPR), the southern peripheral road (SPR), 12km, will also prove to be the lifeline for the future growth of Gurgaon. But the delay in its completion is worrying the commuters. A three-km stretch between NH-8 and Sohna Road is still incomplete.
The SPR?s extended time line is December 2 but like the NPR, the SPR is also stuck in legal tangles resulting in delay upon delay. The SPR connects Kherki Daula on NH-8 with village Ghata, near Sector 55, further to FaridabadGurgaon highway, which is used by thousands of commuters to reach Sohna from Faridabad and vice versa, to bypass the busy MG Road.
In connection with the SPR, the government has shown utmost negligence by not solving the issue of a small village, Darbaripur that is proving to be a major hurdle.
The people of the village have moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court accusing the Haryana government of forcibly acquiring their forefathers? land and displacing them to benefit the developers.
?We are not going to leave our ancestral land, we have been here for hundreds of years and the government did not even inform us that it is planning to acquire our land. We are not going to compromise at all with this land,? said Rambir Singh, a resident of the village, adding that the government has conspired with the developer to snatch their land.
?The two mega projects, NPR and SPR are the future growth of the millennium city. We hope the Haryana government will solve the issues shortly,? said DPS Nagal, chief administrator, HUDA.
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