Chandigarh, April 7 -- After remaining in limbo for over seven years, the much-delayed Tribune Chowk flyover project is finally set to move into the execution stage, with the UT engineering department scheduled to award the contract on Tuesday.

Construction is expected to begin by the end of April and be completed within two years.

The 1.6-km-long flyover is expected to ease the heavy congestion at Tribune Chowk, which handles over 1.43 lakh vehicles, including 1.35 lakh passenger cars, daily, as per original traffic projections.

Ever since its conception, the project has faced multiple procedural delays. Almost eight months after the then UT administrator VP Singh Badnore laid the foundation stone for the project on March 3, 2019, wor...