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Tribune News ServiceThe underground tunnel project for an alternative route to the Chandigarh international airport in Mohali has been dumped due to its high cost. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation had conducted a techno-economic feasibility of an alternative route to the airport, projecting its cost at Rs 1,200 crore. No consensus was reached on renaming the international airport as Haryana and Punjab stuck to their stands. Punjab wanted to rechristen the airport as ‘Shaheed-e-Azam Sardar Bhagat Singh International Airport, Mohali’, as recommended by it in the Vidhan Sabha. Haryana, on the other hand, requested to name the airport as ‘Shaheed Bhagat Singh International Airport, Chandigarh’..