Mohali, Nov. 30 -- The much-awaited inauguration of the Greenfield Project in Mohali, scheduled for December 1, is likely to be delayed as landowners and members of farmers' unions have been staging a protest near the Banjeri village toll plaza for the past week.

The protesters are demanding an entry and exit road near the toll plaza, which the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has termed unfeasible.

The project, aimed at decongesting Airport Road by providing an alternative route for traffic heading towards Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir, has already missed its June and September deadlines this year.

Executed under the central government's Bharatmala Pariyojana at a cost of Rs.1,400 crore, the 31-km road runs...