Decks are cleared for early completion of Dwarka expressway or northern peripheral road as the hurdles in its way are removed.
The first hurdle was a private company, which was earlier allotted land in the area, was creating stumbling blocks in the way of the project. The second obstacle was 528-odd houses in New Palam Vihar, Tekchand Nagar and Kedki Daula which were coming in the way of the expressway.
While all the oustees will be rehabilitated by allotting alternate plots in sector 110A and 37C for them, orders of the Punjab and Haryana High Court empowers Gurgaon administration to vacate the land in possession of Padmini VNA Mechatronics by June-end. Officials are hopeful that this would be done soon.
The expressway was planned to decongest traffic in the city by allowing vehicles from Jaipur side to skip the Gurgaon expressway and head straight towards Dwarka and IGI Airport. The NPR will be the third link road connecting Delhi to Gurgaon after NH 8 and Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road.
But the project was stuck in legal wrangling with residents New Palam Vihar, Tekchand Nagar and Kedki Dhaula, whose houses were coming in the way of the expressway, protesting over delay in allotment of alternative plots. Despite assurances from the Haryana Urban Development Authority (Huda), patience of the e-way oustees was running out as the Huda failed to keep its word almost one year after the High Court ordered a settlement.
Pointing at the inordinate delay in allotment of alternative plots to the affected people, a MCG councillor, Rishi Raj Rana, said, "Huda had filed an affidavit in the court promising to give alternate plots to around 400 oustees of New Palam Vihar in sector 110A by August 2015. The urban development body had even claimed that the land is free from litigation. But till date, the oustees are waiting for alternate plots as the Huda has yet develop Sector 110A."
In fact, the Huda had on paper acquired land of Padmini VNA Mechatronics for construction of the 150-metre-wide Dwarka Expressway. But it has not been able to take possession of the same, so far, due to litigation. However, the high court had passed an order on April 29, 2016 in favour of the Huda, following which the company was given a few weeks' time to shift to another location.
"We will take possession of the company's land by this month itself. With the allotment of alternate plots to oustees, land will be cleared in these areas, paving the way for completion of the expressway," a senior Huda official told City Spidey.
However, Huda officials failed to provide a definite timeframe for allotment of alternate plots to the oustees. "There are some issues. We are trying our best to resolve them to complete the construction of the Dwarka Expressway," said the Huda official.
