Haryana CM to hold round table meet on Global City project

GURUGRAM: Chief minister Manohar Lal will hold a round table discussion with industry leaders and prominent citizens of Gurgaon on Friday on the proposed Global City project that is set to be developed on 1,000 acres near Manesar as a hub of trade and business not just for the city but all of Delhi-NCR.

The area, designated as a ‘special zone’, will be developed as a residential-cum-commercial area, officials said. According to officials, the land on which the Global City project is set to come up is a part of an area that had been transferred to Reliance Industries in 2006 to be developed as a special economic zone (SEZ). After Reliance backed out of the project in 2014, it subsequently returned to the government.

In 2016, the government announced that the Global City will be jointly developed by a Japanese firm and the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (DMICDC). It, too, failed to take off due to differences between DMICDC and HSIIDC, which owns the land.

In 2019, the government finally designated the land as a ‘special zone’ allowing mixed land use to develop residential, commercial and recreational facilities alongside.

Before the conference, Khattar is also set to inaugurate the newly constructed underpass, flyover and foot overbridges (FoB) near Huda City Centre metro station.

The project has been completed at the cost of Rs 52.52 crore by the GMDA to decongest the area around the metro station. Under this project, a 750-metre-long four-lane underpass and a flyover near the metro station and two FOBs at Signature Tower and IFFCO Chowk have been constructed.

The CM will also inaugurate an 8,429-metre-long water supply line for Sectors 111to 115, installed at the cost of Rs 10.1 crore.

The department of town and country planning had issued licences to 33 real estate projects in this area, of these occupation certificates have been issued to 12 projects. At present, around 93,000 people live in this area and they are dependent on water tankers for their daily needs of water. The pipeline will supply around 3 MGD (million gallons per day) to the area.

“The quality of water is so good that residents do not need to use RO provided society has clean water storage facilities,” a GMDA official said.

Khattar is also scheduled to also participate in the ‘Pariksha pe Charcha’ programme with the students at a government school in Sector 43