Work on Pathankot-Mandi NH project to slow down

The ongoing construction work of the Pathankot-Mandi national highway widening project in the Nurpur section (Kandwal to Bherkhud) is likely to slow down, as the state High Court, while admitting a civil writ petition (CWP) of 106 four-lane affected persons, had on March 15 ordered the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to maintain status quo with regard to the possession of the land of the petitioners.

However, the NHAI has acquired the land of these affected persons, as per the NHAI Act-1956 and paid a calculated compensation into their bank accounts but they had been raising the demand of fair compensation for their immovable properties, as per the provisions of the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013.