India, Aug. 19 -- The Haryana government's high-powered works purchase committee (HPWPC) has approved two GMDA infrastructure projects worth Rs.68.69 crore, including the reconstruction and upgradation of a 7.1-km corridor from IFFCO Chowk to Southern Peripheral Road (SPR) and construction of a missing link between Sectors 68 and 69.

The projects were approved at a meeting chaired by chief minister Nayab Singh Saini in Chandigarh late Monday evening, GMDA officials said.

PC Meena, chief executive officer, GMDA, said the IFFCO Chowk-SPR corridor would cover sector-dividing roads between Sectors 28/29, 43/44, 52/52A and 56/57. About 7.1 km of the main carriageway will be overlaid with bituminous material, while footpaths and cycle tracks ...