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Two months after the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) and Panjab University (PU) refused to allocate spare land for a pedestrian underpass between the two institutes, the Chandigarh Administration has amended the design of the underpass.
The Department of Urban Planning had decided to construct an underpass between the two owing to heavy footfall at both the institutes and many people crossing the road. In order to facilitate the crossing of the road for patients and students, the underpass was planned.
A senior official of the Chandigarh engineering wing said that “because the two institutes refused to spare land, the department of urban planning has made amendments to the project’s design based on the current site conditions”.
“A new design has been made now. Basically the design has been modified in a way that it is to accommodate the existing conditions. Now the new revised design will be put forth in the meeting of heritage sub-committee which is scheduled to take place in the mid of this month,” the officer said.
The heritage sub-committee is headed by former chief architect Sumeet Kaur who is in the United States of America these days and is expected to return by July 15. Only after she returns, the new plan would be put before the committee.
Both PGI and PU had declined to provide 60 square yards on both sides, a space that was required by the UT to make the underpass.
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