Mohali, May 6 -- With work still pending on the Greenfield Alignment Project, which is expected to decongest the Airport Road in Mohali, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has set a fresh deadline for its completion -- September 2025.

A Maharashtra-based company, which was allotted the work in October 2022, had earlier been given time till June 2025.

A senior NHAI official said, "Nearly 82% of the work has been completed and we can expect the project to be complete by September 2025."

The 31-kilometre road, from IT Chowk (PR-7) near Chandigarh International Airport to Kurali-Chandigarh road, is being built in an area that has never been developed.

NHAI had come up with the Greenfield Project after scrapping the 40-km Khar...