Property in Bahadurgarh

In a major boost to regional connectivity in the state, the Uttar Pradesh government has allocated Rs 900 crore in the Budget for 2020-21 for the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut Rapid Rail Transit System.

With the authorities looking for various ways to tame air pollution in the Delhi-NCR region, the focus, of late, is on the 'smog tower' in Delhi's Connaught Place and Anand Vihar. The 'smog tower' is a pilot project and the Supreme Court (SC) has asked the centre and the Delhi government to set it up within three months, as against nine months that the authorities had been seeking.

The Haryana government, in order to increase the supply and stablise property prices in the state, on June 25, 2019 had revised the building norms to allow the construction of housing and commercial projects on smaller land parcels. The norms have been revised based on the zone a project falls under — hyper, high, medium or low, based on the circle rates and the market price of land in a particular area. This move is also aimed at keeping a check on the unauthorised construction and mushrooming of illegal colonies.

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on May 27 directed officials to work actively for extension of the Metro network in areas falling within the NCR, which includes Gurugram, Faridabad, Sonipat, Jhajjar and Rohtak. Khattar said the Metro rail extension would ensure ease of traffic and better public transport services to the people of the state. The CM directed officials to explore possibility of bringing the Metro network in Chandigarh, Panchkula and Mohali.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 19 inaugurated the 83-km-long Kundli-Manesar section of this infrastructure project; the remaining 53-km stretch has been operational since April 2016. The expressway will offer signal-free connectivity to Palwal from Sonepat, bypassing Delhi. The expressway highway together with the Eastern Peripheral Expressway, will divert as many as 50,000 heavy vehicles away from Delhi.