Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) is on a warpath to complete the construction of the Northern Peripheral Road (NPR), or the Dwarka Expressway project. On Wednesday it demolished seven unauthorised houses that it deemed were acting as hurdles to the construction of a 10-km elevated road, which is part of the project. The land on which these houses were built is to be handed over to the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for the project.
HUDA said it would continue the drive to remove all unauthorised structures for the project.
HS Jakhar, sub-divisional officer (SDO), enforcement, HUDA, Gurgaon, said, “The owners of the razed unauthorised structures have been paid compensation by HUDA and offered alternative plots in Sector 110 A. They already started vacating their houses and shifting to the new location. We are using bulldozers to raze the illegal structures. So far, we have demolished 10 houses and will raze more than 25 in the next two days.”
HUDA not only has unauthorised houses on its radar but also a few boundary walls and sheds.
HUDA was initially slated to complete the NPR in 2012, but a dispute over a 1.4-km stretch delayed the project. In October 2016, HUDA handed over the NPR to NHAI and the project has since been extended to Shivmurti near Mahipalpur. The NHAI, which proposed the 10-km elevated road in Gurgaon, is waiting for HUDA to hand over the required land at New Palam Vihar and Kherki.
The total length of the Dwarka Expressway is 29 km, of which 18 km falls in Gurgaon. Of this, work on 1.4 km remains incomplete due to land litigation.
