1,000 more acres okayed for Mohali airport project

Mohali: The Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) is all set to acquire an additional 1,000 acres for providing road connectivity to the upcoming international airport, besides commercial exploitation of the proposed mixed land use zone along the proposed roads.
The commercial exploitation will enable the GMADA to bear the acquisition costs, construction costs and for creating other requisite infrastructure in and around the airport complex.
“We have sought a no-objection certificate from the Mohali Deputy Commissioner before issuing the acquisition notice for 1,000 acres, which will be in addition to the almost 306 acres already acquired in Jheourheri village for the airport terminal,” GMADA Chief Administrator Vivek Partap Singh told Newsline.
If the compensation of Rs 1.5 crore per acre for the land acquired earlier, which has already been paid to 222 people, is taken into consideration, the future acquisition is likely to cost almost Rs 1,500 crore.
The additional land will be acquired for providing connectivity to the airport from Sector 20 of Panchkula through Zirakpur and also from Mohali as per the alignments approved recently by the GMADA Executive Committee, headed by Punjab Chief Secretary Ramesh Inder Singh.
Besides a six-lane road from Chandigarh to the airport, the alignment of which has been done in consultation with the UT Administration, another approach road has been planned from the Chhat village on the Patiala-Zirakpur highway.
11/08/08 Nitin Jain/Chandigarh Newsline

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