Panchkula Pauses Plan to Relocate Illegal Gandhi Colony
Representative AI image PANCHKULA: The Panchkula administration has temporarily halted its plan to relocate the illegal Gandhi Colony, a large slum settlement along the route to Mata Mansa Devi Mandir, despite ongoing unsanitary conditions affecting both residents and pilgrims. City departments began surveying the encroached area in September of last year in preparation for the Navratri festival, with plans to relocate the slum dwellers to Kharag Mangoli. This decision followed a meeting of the Shri Mata Mansa Devi Shrine Board, chaired by Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, which aimed to make the temple grounds completely free of encroachments to…