₹800 cut in enhancement cost: GMADA's balm for 10-year lapse

Even after being slashed, allottees complain the charge stands at a sizeable ₹2,364 per square yard, up from just ₹700 to ₹850 in 2013

- Hillary Victor

MOHALI: Over 30,000 residents of Mohali's Sectors 76 to 80 may finally get some respite as the Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) has proposed to slash the enhancement charges by ₹800 per square yard.

The rate, previously pegged at ₹3,164 per square yard, will be revised to ₹2,364, if approved. But for residents, who have waited over a decade on tenterhooks, this relief feels like too little, too late.

In 2013, the rates ranged from ₹700 to ₹850 per square yard, depending on plot size—nearly three to four times lower than the amount being sought now, due to accumulating interest.

The root of allottees' suffering lies in GMADA's decade-long lapse.