The Punjab and Haryana High Court today verbally questioned the very basis of constructing the proposed Tribune flyover, while observing that the city’s master plan apparently had no provisions for flyovers.

“The Master Plan is screaming no flyover. How are you going in for it?” the High Court Bench headed by Chief Justice Sheel Nagu asked the UT administration during the hearing on the project. The Bench also sought clarity on whether the Master Plan had been duly notified and whether due procedure had been followed for its amendment. In response, counsel assisting the Bench, advocate Tanu Bedi, submitted that the Chandigarh Master Plan was notified in 2015 following the High Court’s intervention and “had never been amended”.

Bedi stressed that Chandigarh was never conceptualised like a

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