Panchkula, Nov. 6 -- Despite ongoing hearings in the Punjab and Haryana high court regarding the stay on "stilt parking plus four floors" construction, high-rise buildings continue to multiply rapidly across Panchkula. Several landowners are demolishing older properties to construct modern multi-storey houses featuring ground-floor stilt parking and multiple upper residential floors.

A recent visit by HT to these residential areas confirmed the widespread construction, with numerous large, multi-storey structures already completed and many more under way.

Ravinder Sharma, president of the senior citizens council, Panchkula, expressed concern that such high-rise buildings would only increase neighbour disputes and exacerbate parking prob...