gurgaon the citys ambitious underpass project at three major intersections rajeev chowk singature towers and iffco chowk to ease bottlenecks on delhigurgaon expressway seems to have hit a roadblock even before takeoff while the plan is close to completion the engineering team is facing a tough time finalizing the iffco chowk underpass the problem arose because of space constraints and existence of too many towers around the site the problem got aggravated after the national highways authority of india nhai had recently rejected the idea of acquiring private land for the project the acquisition of private land will be more expensive than the project cost the real estate prices are too high and the land will be no less than the project cost that is rs 250 crore said an official on condition of anonymity there are metro pillars that act as impediments even the green belt around iffco chowk is nonexistent there is barely any space for creating two lanes on both sides to carve out space for underpass he said at the same time the designs of the underpasses at rajiv chowk and signature tower are almost done and details were frozen at a joint meeting between officials of nhai mcg and their consultants on july 7 there was space available on both sides at the other two sites and huda has agreed to hand over the green belt the official said the authorities are also cautious about the vulnerability of the existing structure at iffco chowk if too much digging is carried out we cant even dig too much of land under the metro pillars as they might lose their strength the official added another official on the condition of anonymity said for underpass at iffco chowk we were supposed to leave three metrewide space for nonmotorized transport and another two metres for pedestrians but these dimensions had to be truncated because of space constrains at places we have knocked off the space for pedestrians the final details of the iffco chowk underpass are likely to be submitted by the consultant delhi integrated multi modal transit system dimts to the nhai in a few days we had asked them to be innovative in order to optimize the available space acquiring private land however will remain out of question said the nhai official when contacted huda administrator anita yadav said we will hand over whatever land they have asked us for now whether it suffices or not is not our lookout