GMADA Notifies 150-Feet Wide Road Connecting to Rajpura IMC

What GMADA Notified

GMADA's notification, dated 4 February 2026, is titled "Notification regarding 150 feet wide road connecting to IMC under AKIC corridor project as per lay out of the site in the area of Tehsil Rajpura, District Patiala." The notice was issued through the Housing and Urban Development Department channel that GMADA uses for its statutory notifications and public notices.

The document formalises a 150-feet (roughly 45-metre) wide road reservation that connects into the Rajpura-Patiala Integrated Manufacturing Cluster (IMC), the flagship node of the Amritsar-Kolkata Industrial Corridor (AKIC) in Punjab. The notification ties the road's width and alignment to "the lay out of the site," i.e. the approved site plan for the IMC, rather than announcing a fresh road or a change to the IMC's boundary itself.

Context: The Road This Notification Covers

This 150-feet road is not a new proposal. Land acquisition for a 150-foot wide road through villages Kai, Mandwal, Khanpur Khurd, Kanwarpur, and Pabra was completed to directly link the IMC to the SAS Nagar (Mohali) airport, as reported in mid-2024. Earlier project documentation from NICDC had also described a proposed 45-metre wide master plan road connecting the IMC site to NH-44 and the Rajpura bypass — a width equivalent to about 148 feet, close to the 150-feet figure now notified. The February 2026 GMADA notification appears to be the formal, statutory step that fixes this connecting road's width and alignment in the official site layout for Tehsil Rajpura, following the earlier land acquisition and planning work.

GMADA's records also list a separate, undated "Public notice regarding Rajpura corridor road" on its site, indicating that road-related notices for this corridor have been issued in more than one instance; the 4 February 2026 entry is the one dated and titled specifically around the 150-feet width and the IMC layout.

The Rajpura-Patiala IMC — What the Road Connects To

The Rajpura-Patiala IMC is Punjab's node under the Amritsar-Kolkata Industrial Corridor (AKIC), part of the National Industrial Corridor Development Programme (NICDP). The Rajpura-Patiala IMC, spanning 1,099 acres, is strategically located at the junction of NH-44 and NH-64, ensuring seamless connectivity to Chandigarh, Mohali, Ludhiana, and Ambala, with an investment potential of ₹7,500 crore, expected to generate over 64,000 jobs, and a project cost of ₹1,367 crore. A technical specification document puts the precise figure at a total land area of 1,098.85 acres designated for the IMC, under the ownership of PUDA.

The project is implemented through a dedicated special purpose vehicle. Following IMC (Integrated Manufacturing Clusters) have been approved by the NICDC for this corridor each of which will be developed under separate SPV with 49% NICDC stake and 51% stake for the respective state: Punjab: Rajpura Patiala IMC, 1099 acres. As of mid-2025, SEIAA, Punjab had granted Environmental Clearance for the Rajpura-Patiala Integrated Manufacturing Cluster, one of the regulatory approvals needed before construction on the industrial cluster itself can proceed.

Practical Effect of the Notification

A road-width notification of this kind has a specific legal and planning function within GMADA's jurisdiction: it fixes the reserved width (150 feet) and alignment of the connecting road on record, so that:

• The road corridor is protected from encroachment or conflicting construction along its notified stretch in Tehsil Rajpura.
• Building-plan approvals, site plans, and land transactions in the vicinity must account for the reserved road width.
• The connecting road is anchored to the approved layout of the IMC site, aligning local road infrastructure with the AKIC corridor project rather than being planned independently.

The notification is an infrastructure-access measure supporting the IMC — it does not itself expand, reduce, or reclassify the IMC's ~1,099-acre industrial land parcel, and it should not be read as confirmation that the IMC's industrial plots or the road itself are complete or operational.

Status as of February 2026

As of the notification date (4 February 2026), this is a planning/notification-stage action by GMADA — it formalises the road layout on paper. Physical construction status of this specific stretch is not confirmed in GMADA's notice text; earlier reporting from 2024 indicates that land acquisition for a 150-foot road link to the airport, via the villages named above, had already been completed by that point. Readers should treat the IMC's industrial development itself, including plot allotment and factory construction, as a separate and ongoing process tracked through NICDC and NPICDCL (the Punjab-specific SPV), not as settled by this road notification.