Mullanpur-Kharar road may be ready in 1.5 yrs

Chandigarh, October 8

With construction work going full steam, the 8-km New Chandigarh-Kharar road is expected to be ready in nearly one and a half years.

The 200-ft wide road work, which began around a month ago, will connect Mullanpur in New Chandigarh to Kharar on the National Highway 21. Besides, the new road will lessen road traffic in Kharar and will help commuters coming from the airport towards New Chandigarh and vice versa.

Commuters coming from the New Chandigarh side need not enter Chandigarh to come to the airport. It is a ring road, which will connect Kharar to Zirakpur. Also, the road will further join the Kurali road that leads to Rupnagar and Morinda.

“It is a Rs130-crore project. The road will be ready in one and a half years as we have already completed land acquisition and other formalities,” said a senior GMADA officer.

The 18-km road stretch from Kharar to Zirakpur was completed more than four years ago, but the further work has been hanging fire since then.

GMADA had earlier acquired nearly 120 acres for the new road. The work was delayed as land acquisition took time. It later got delayed due to Covid. The road will start from New Sunny Enclave will connect New Chandigarh near the cricket stadium. — TNS