{"id":659613,"date":"2026-03-24T12:17:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659613"},"modified":"2026-03-24T13:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T07:49:07","slug":"in-parliament-sandhu-seeks-metro-project-for-tricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/in-parliament-sandhu-seeks-metro-project-for-tricity\/","title":{"rendered":"In Parliament, Sandhu seeks metro project for tricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rajya Sabha member Satnam Singh Sandhu on Monday sought a metro rail network in Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula in view of the rising population in the tricity. Raising the issue in Rajya Sabha through a Special Mention during the ongoing budget session, MP Sandhu said the tricity is growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.02% and its population is projected to surpass the 40-lakh mark by 2041.<\/p>\n<p>The tricity constitutes one of north India\u2019s fastest-growing urban clusters which is further linked to key cities such as Kharar, Zirakpur, Dera Bassi, Lalru, Kurali, Rupnagar, Pinjore, Kalka and Ambala. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajya Sabha member Satnam Singh Sandhu on Monday sought a metro rail network in Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula in view of the rising population in the tricity. Raising the issue in Rajya Sabha through a Special Mention during the ongoing budget session, MP Sandhu said the tricity is growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.02% and its population is projected to surpass the 40-lakh mark by 2041. The tricity constitutes one of north India\u2019s fastest-growing urban clusters which is further linked to key cities such as Kharar, Zirakpur, Dera Bassi, Lalru, Kurali, Rupnagar, Pinjore, Kalka and Ambala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-railways-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}