Rohtak traders up in arms against elevated road project

Tribune News Service

Rohtak, November 27

The proposed elevated 2-km road project here is being opposed by local residents and businessmen whose establishments are located along the stretch of the Delhi road where the elevated road is slated to be constructed.

The owners of commercial establishments located on the said stretch between Ambedkar Chowk and the old bus stand feel that the project would not serve any worthwhile purpose but surely ruin their businesses. Prominent traders, doctors, hoteliers and other professionals at a meeting here yesterday chalked out a strategy to oppose the project tooth and nail.

The meeting decided that traders, professionals and other stakeholders would stage a demonstration at Chhotu Ram Chowk tomorrow and submit a memorandum to the local Deputy Commissioner, voicing their concerns .

Representatives of various different organisations of traders stated that a vast majority of traders of the area in question were opposed to the project .They maintained that if the authorities concerned still went ahead with the project, they would adopt the legal course.

Those opposing the project point out that the project would not serve any purpose as heavy vehicles do not enter this part of the town nor would auto-rickshaw operators ply their vehicles on the elevated road. However, local MLA and Haryana Minister of State for Cooperatives Manish Grover asserted that the project would be beneficial to the residents and those opposing it owed allegiance to opposition parties.