News: Last-mile links missing in new sectors, condos cut off from Gurgaon, says plea in HC-03-10-2025
Gurgaon: Residents of new sectors along Dwarka Expressway have approached Punjab and Haryana high court, seeking intervention for the construction of 24 metre and 30 metre internal sector roads. The missing links, residents say, hamper smooth access to homes, delay ambulances and fire brigades, and create dust and safety hazards across the area.
This comes after the residents' repeated representations to civic and planning authorities yielded little progress. The citizen group — Dwarka Expressway Gurugram Development Association (DXP GDA) — filed a writ petition through advocate Seema Nain, who says "judicial intervention was now the only way forward".
Some societies are even forced to rely on tankers as supply lines cannot be laid without proper internal roads. DXP GDA joint convener Sunil Sareen said, "Residents have been suffering from congestion, unsafe travel and lack of proper access to their own homes. Filing this writ petition is a first step to ensure the longpending internal roads are completed without further delay."
Advocate Seema said, "Despite being an essential part of approved development plans, these roads remain incomplete, causing daily hardship to thousands of families. Through this petition, we are seeking action so that residents get the infrastructure they were promised." The missing 24 metre roads have been a perennial issue, especially in newer parts of the city.
Under Gurgaon Manesar Master Plan 2031, govt agencies were tasked with building the 60metre sector dividing roads, but the responsibility of constructing the 24 metre internal sector roads was left to private developers. Each builder is mandated to construct only the portion falling within their licensed area.
As a result, on any given stretch, different developers may build different patches at different times, while gaps remain where licences were never issued or projects stalled. This fragmented system has left several colonies connected only by revenue roads or unpaved stretches, leaving thousands of families without proper road connectivity.
Unlike older HSVP sectors where 18 metre internal roads were built by the authority, residents in the new sectors have no single agency accountable for delivering complete 24 metre links.
The fallout has been severe: approach roads that end abruptly, broken and unlevelled stretches filled with potholes, and in many cases, incomplete roads blocking the laying of utilities such as sewerage, drainage and water pipelines.A senior DTCP official acknowledged the policy vacuum, calling it "ambiguous."
"Any developing agency or private developer that has acquired the land for developing a colony or sector is mandated to construct the 24metre road. But there is no provision for acquiring land specifically for these roads and now the new land acquisition law has also made things difficult," the official said.
