GMDA approves Rs 900 crore for urban infrastructure
Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) has approved the budget for the fiscal year 2025–26. The Rs 3,034 crore budget has put Rs 900 crore for urban infrastructure development. The proposals are cleared to build flyovers or underpasses at five congestion-prone junctions — Railway Road Chowk, Sector 5 junction, Krishna Chowk, Rezang La Chowk, and the Old Delhi Road-Palam Vihar junction, along the new metro corridor from Millennium City Centre to Cyber City.
The budget has allocated a portion for the stormwater drainage woes, the board sanctioned Rs 70 crore for the reconstruction of two key legs of the master drain network, covering over 4.2 km in Sectors 21, 22 and 23. Work under the approved budget also include Rs 110 crore to replace a vital pipeline from Basai Water Treatment Plant to Sector 16, and Rs 134 crore for upgrading a 15km stretch of the city’s sewer line network.
GMDA would also reconstruct the remaining 2.8 km stretch of Leg-I and address similar degradation in Leg-II. Work related to the master road connecting NH-8 to Naurangpur between Sectors 78 and 80 has also been approved at Rs 41.8 crore.
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