Mohali, July 5 -- Come September 1 and the snarls on Airport Road may ease a bit, as the Greenfield Project, which will serve as an alternative route for Delhi traffic heading towards Himachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir, will be thrown open to the public.

A National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) official said that 93% of the work is complete and the rest will be done by the last week of August. "Though our deadline was June, we will be able to open the road to the public by September 1," the official said.

The 31-kilometre road, being constructed under the Centre's Bharatmala Pariyojana, runs from IT Chowk (PR-7) near Chandigarh International Airport to Kurali-Chandigarh road.

The NHAI had come up with this Rs.1,400 crore project ...