The Punjab and Haryana High Court has stopped the construction of Camleot:A multi-storey housing project being executed by Tata Housing Development Company (THDC) in an ecologically fragile zone in Punjab, north of Chandigarh. The 'Camelot' project, comprising multi-tower, high-rise apartments. The company planed to have 18 high-rise buildings with luxury flats costing a minimum of a whopping Rs.30 million.Some of the towers were supposed to have up to 23 floors. The controversial project, for which THDC had obtained necessary clearances from the Punjab government, is located close to the Sukhna lake wildlife sanctuary.
Le Corbusier's Masterplan allowed for no construction activity in an area of 16 km around the city.
The court ruling is a blow to THDC and a number of politicians and other influential people in Punjab who had sold big chunks of land to the company in recent years for the project in Mohali district. The THDC offered luxury flats and penthouses to politicians from the ruling Akali Dal, the Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party and other parties in Punjab in the proposed towers.
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