Sector 102 Families Seek Completion of Three 24-Metre Roads

GURUGRAM: More than 500 families at Emaar Imperial Gardens in Sector 102 have asked the state to acquire land and finish three planned 24-metre internal roads that have stayed incomplete for seven years, the condominium association has written to the Additional Chief Secretary, Town and Country Planning.

Emaar Imperial Gardens Condominium Association has sought identification, demarcation and priority construction of the three missing sectoral roads, which sit in sanctioned development plans but have not been built because the land is yet to be acquired. Completing them, the association said, would open direct links to the Dwarka Expressway and the Upper Dwarka Expressway. The builder has laid part of one 24-metre stretch; the rest has sat unfinished, the association said, because the 24-metre-roads policy was never made clear on the ground.

"Our builder has constructed part of the 24m road, while the other part has been lying incomplete for the last seven years due to lack of clarity on 24-metre roads policy. One of these roads is supposed to connect our society with Dwarka Expressway and Upper Dwarka Expressway. But these connections are still incomplete," RWA vice-president Sunil Sareen said. General secretary Krishan Madhav said the society suffers when the main route jams or a gate is restricted, and that in the monsoon the only access floods. A second entry and exit, he said, would also help adjoining pockets.

The association has separately asked for restoration of a revenue road behind the society that connects adjoining EWS flats with master road No. 183, and for street lighting on that stretch. Some of the proposed links, residents said, pass through other builders' parcels and private land, which is why acquisition and demarcation have to come before asphalt.

In March, Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini announced that the government would start land acquisition for long-pending 24-metre roads in Gurugram's licensed colonies, with the cost to be recovered from the builders concerned. He had said hundreds of licensed colonies still depend on access that narrows to two karam (about 3.3 metres) or four karam (about 6.7 metres). The Gurgaon-Manesar Master Plan 2031 left 24-metre internal sector roads to private developers, each responsible only for the length inside their licence. Where plots, village abadi and other licences sit in the way, the road simply stops. The March announcement has not yet shown up as a notified acquisition in Sector 102.

Imperial Gardens is not an isolated complaint. Licensed colonies from Sector 58 to 115 have been writing the same letter in different letterheads: a 24-metre line on the layout, a two-karam lane on the ground, and no fire tender width when it rains. The ACS now has a specific three-road request, a named society of 500-plus families, and a Chief Minister's March promise sitting five months old. Demarcation is the first physical step. Until the three alignments are marked on revenue maps, the 24-metre road in Sector 102 remains a line in a brochure.