LUCKNOW, July 31 -- Amid increasing demand for residential plots and houses in Ayodhya, a township has been planned for the temple town on the Ayodhya-Basti highway. The mega project will come up on 107-hectare land with a corpus of Rs.300 crore. The Ayodhya Development Authority (ADA) has approved the project and sent it to the state government for approval. After the state cabinet's nod, the ADA will get 50 percent of the fund earmarked for the project.

The development authority has already begun the survey work for acquiring land from farmers. The ADA staff is carrying out the survey work in Ridhaura village in Harraiya tehsil of Basti district. According to ADA officials, the township will have both residential and commercial plots a...