De-notification of G’gram land gets Centre nod

Ravi S Singh

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, February 20

The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi today gave approval for de-notification of three marlas overlapping with the NHAI for setting up a bus bay near Indian Defence University in Gurugram.

It also approved refund of Rs1,82,719 by the Haryana Government towards de-notification of the land to the Defence Ministry, which was paid to it at the time of acquisition in 2011.

The Indian Defence University, which is being set up at Binola and Bilaspur, is located 11 km from the headquarters of National Security Guard on the Delhi-Jaipur highway.

The university will propagate higher education in national security studies, defence management and defence technology and promote policy oriented research on all aspects relating to national security, both internal and external.

The piece of land in question was overlapping with the NHAI, with dual ownership of the Defence Ministry and the NHAI. The Indian Defence University proposed construction of a bus bay along NH-8 for decongestion of heavy traffic on the Delhi-Jaipur highway.

The land has been acquired by the NHAI for construction of the proposed bus bay which is aimed to improve connectivity to Gurugram and Delhi. The stretch is always clogged. The highway connects eight states.

With fast-paced urbanisation and expansion of population in Gurugram and other southern districts of Rewari and Mahendragarh, vehicles to and from other states passing via Delhi has increased road density on this stretch of the highway.