Northern Patiala Bypass to decongest city traffic; work goes on smoothly
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in
Few years ago, to decongest city’s roads, the state government had conceptualized the idea to construct a ring road around the royal city Patiala. That ring road will prevent vehicles coming from other parts of Punjab and areas bordering Haryana from entering the city daily.
In the first phase, in 2017, the southern bypass connecting traffic from Chandigarh-Bathinda without entering Patiala was finally inaugurated and opened for common public. After that the work on remaining portion of the city ring road – Northern bypass started.
As per initial estimate, the proposed northern Patiala bypass is tipped to be of 27km involving ₹935 crore for land acquisition and construction.
The Northern bypass of 27.350 km will start from Chamarheri, Daun and will end at Jahlan. As per officials, the required land selection process has already been completed. Two notifications 3-A (Where the Central Government is satisfied that for a public purpose any land is required for the building, maintenance, management or operation of a national highway or part thereof, it may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare its intention to acquire such land), 3-D (Where no objection under sub-section (1) of section 3C has been made to the competent authority within the period specified therein ) requires to acquire 120.342269 Hectares of land ,have already got published in leading newspapers of the region. Other 3G (Determination of amount payable as compensation, where any land is acquired under this Act) notification is still pending.
Northern Patiala Bypass to decongest city traffic; work goes on smoothly. As per Vishal Shama of National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) who is supervising the project, said, “we have already forwarded the proposal of financial requirement of this project. We are hopeful we will get the financial approval in this fiscal year. As soon as we got the financial approval, we will publish the required 3 G notification and the total cost of the project will be disclosed.”
As per available information, the said Northern bypass will be 45 meters wide and will be four laned. The 120.342269 Hectares of land is acquired (vide section 3-A, 3D) from 24 villages through which it will pass. The villages whose land is acquired are-Wazidpur, Jahlan, Bishanpur Channa, Bibipur, Ranbirpura, kalian, Inderpura, Ase Majra, Ucha Gaon, Sidhuwal, Jassowal, Lachkani, Rongla, Lang, Hardaspur, Majari Akalian, Faridpur, Kalwa, Daun Khurd, Bhateri, Janherian, Daun Kalan, Dhareri Jattan, Chamarheri. Land for service road is acquired from sanour, Ghalori villages. The final plan, shape will be finalized, once the 3-G notification is issued.
April 1,2022
