Mohali civic body limits set to be formalised by December-end

The expansion of the Municipal Corporation (MC) limits is set to be formalised before December 31, Local Bodies Department sources have informed.

After the deadline for suggestions and objections regarding the draft notification finished on November 6, the department has intensified the process to formalise the new MC limits as the government is keen to complete the process after much delay.

Residents of TDI City, Balongi, Badhmajra, Baliyali, Green Enclave have resented the decision to exclude the villages from the new civic body Limits and have even threatened to approach the court if their villages are not included in the new limits

Mohali MLA Kulwant Singh said, “The government has taken the decision after much deliberation keeping in mind the pros and cons of the move. However, after the residents expressed their desire to include their villages in the notification, government is considering their demand sympathetically and the decision will be taken in the benefit of all concerned.”

Mayor Amarjit Singh Sidhu, meanwhile, “The House had resolved to include these villages in the new limits in 2021. But now the government has taken a decision arbitrarily. We will support the residents of these village and will knock on the doors of the court if AAP government does not reconsider its decision.”

Significantly, the government will have to complete the entire process before December 31 as the Registrar General of India and Census Commissioner Mrityunjay Kumar Narayan in a letter to Chief Secretaries of states and UTs has stated that the administrative boundaries will be frozen on December 31, disallowing the states and Union Territories to change the boundaries of its municipalities, panchayats, police stations, sub-districts and districts from January 1 2025 to March 31, 2027.

The first phase of the Census 2026 will begin from April 1. The house-listing operation will begin on April 1, 2026 whereas population enumeration will start on February 1, 2027.