GURUGRAM: The Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) has invited bids to build service roads along the master road that divides Sectors 99 and 102, a stretch that residents of several large housing societies use every day to reach the Dwarka Expressway.
The work has been estimated at Rs 7.26 crore. According to the tender notice on the Haryana e-procurement portal, published on 2 October, bids can be submitted until 15 October. The earnest money deposit has been set at about Rs 14.5 lakh and the tender document fee at Rs 1,180. The work is being paid for from GMDA's own funds and is open to national competitive bidding. Officials said the job should take about 10 months once it starts.
The plan is for a service lane of about 1.1 km on the right side of the existing road and about 644 metres on the left. Along with the service road, GMDA will build a footpath-cum-surface drain, put up streetlights and install road-safety furniture along the stretch.
The idea is to give local traffic its own lane so that vehicles entering and leaving the societies do not have to cut across the main carriageway. A GMDA official said the space available along the existing road would be used for the service lane, and that there was no land-related hindrance at the site, so work could go ahead as planned.
The road serves a cluster of large group housing projects, including Heritage Max, Suncity Avenue, G-99 and Emaar Gurgaon Greens. For residents of these societies, it is the main link towards the Dwarka Expressway and the Upper Dwarka Expressway.
The bigger repair is still awaiting approval
The service lanes are only half of the fix. The main carriageway itself has not been resurfaced fully in years, and a residents' welfare association along the road has complained about potholes, dust, missing streetlights and poor drainage.
GMDA says a separate project to strengthen and upgrade the main road is in the pipeline. A proposal was first drawn up in November last year as a special repair job of about Rs 8.5 crore. The scope was later widened from surface carpeting to full strengthening because of the heavy traffic on the stretch, and the revised estimate is now about Rs 17 crore.
That revised estimate is still waiting for administrative approval. Only once it is cleared can the authority go to tender, which means the main carriageway work is some months away even if approval comes quickly.
For homebuyers and residents in Sectors 99, 102 and the neighbouring pockets, the state of sector roads has been a recurring grievance. In Sector 102, residents of one society had to petition the state to acquire land for three unfinished 24-metre roads, as Dalimss reported in its story on the Imperial Gardens residents' plea.
The wider problem of missing and incomplete sector roads in New Gurugram is now before the High Court. The state has said it will acquire 1,157 acres of private land to complete 24-metre roads across Sectors 58 to 115, beginning with a pilot of about 10.6 acres that includes stretches in Sectors 81 to 86 and 104, as covered in our report on the sector roads acquisition plan.
Service roads matter in this belt because so much of the traffic is local. Societies here open directly onto the master road, so without a separate lane the main carriageway slows down every time a vehicle turns in or out of a gate.
In GMDA's records the road is listed as Asset ID 138, the number that appears in the tender title. The tender is open to contractors in the civil works category on the state portal. Once bids close on 15 October, GMDA will evaluate them and issue the work order, after which the 10-month construction clock will start. Anyone following the project can track its status on the state e-procurement portal using the tender ID, 2026_HRY_551865_1.
