India, May 10 -- The Ghaziabad development authority (GDA) has shifted a 33kV electricity line passing through its Madhuban Bapudham housing scheme, paving the way for allottees to construct 1,000 residential plots, officials said on Friday.

The housing scheme, spread across 1,234 hectares near the Delhi-Meerut Road, was launched in 2004. The electricity line that has been shifted passed through the housing scheme's residential pocket B.

"The authority has successfully shifted the electricity line away from the pocket B at a cost of Rs.1.2 crore. The line has been handed over to the electricity department. We received complaints from allottees as it was passing over their residential plots," said Rudresh Shukla, media coordinator of GDA...