Badarpur Flyover Progress Report

New year 2009 seems to have brought new hopes for the city of Faridabad. This long neglected district which was once a glorious industrial township was recently being dubbed as Gurgaons poor cousin. Connectivity was a major bottleneck.

A flyover at Badarpur was proposed for long due. After almost two decades of flip-flops, the contract was finally awarded to Hindustan Construction. The project is scheduled to be completed by end 2010.

The progress is also visible. On both sides of NH-2 digging of roads apparently to create provision of service roads is quite visible. Infact at some places the depth is so much that even today one could feel as if it is an elevated road.

However, this road might mean bad news to some of the existing commercial establishments. The upcoming mall at Destination Point, which was earlier being developed by Senior Builders, rechristened as Indiabulls Mega Mart, could be affected by the flyover because of non-access from the new flyover. The IT Park by Vatika group could also face the same issue.

The flyover is to conclude someone near the Sarai Chowk, beyond Sec 37. The Abacus Techno Park developed by Crown-Aerens could be marginally affected depending on the end point of the flyover. However, the prestigious Crown-Interiorz mall by the same developer looks beyond the concluding point and could rather get the connectivity advantage and may attract visitors from adjoining Sarita Vihar and other parts of South Delhi. Similarly the RPS IT Park may also remain unaffected.

Exact impacts would be known as and when things shape up.