Summary:
On 6 September 2017, Local Bodies minister Navjot Singh Sidhu laid the foundation stone of this project. LUDHIANA: The long wait to get rid of traffic jams on the railway crossing near Pakhowal Road is going to get longer, as even for the second time, civic officials had failed to receive a response from three bidders. Officials showed dissatisfaction over the rules framed by Local Bodies minister Navjot Sidhu for allotment of tenders, even in the case of Smart City Mission.Civic officials are tight-lipped over the status of the project. The queue of vehicles reaches up to Hero Bakery Chowk and Sidhwan Canal in both directions, and due to the presence of a convent school near this railway crossing, the problem gets exaggerated during the morning and afternoon hours. Cabinet minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu is also breathing down the necks of civic officials for the delay in this project, because it falls in his constituency..