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Ravdeep Singh of the city and his father Dr. Santokh Singh have joined hands to set up a colony with a difference - Green Acres - on the Airport Road. Ravdeep Singh has just come back from abroad after completing his MBA and computer engineering.

The proposed colony as revealed by Dr. Santokh Singh , "Is the first private colony approved by PUDA. We are going to make it a dream area, especially with its environment-friendly features. We have planned lush green areas in and around the colony. I will leave no stone unturned to make it a model colony."

Talking about the present planning of the city, he said: "Our city presently is developing in a haphazard manner. Laws exist but no one cares for them. According to recent statistics released by PUDA, 173 unauthorised colonies have come up in the city. However authorities turn a blind eye towards them. Further problems like lack of proper streetlights, water shortage, sewerage problem etc have become regular features in most parts of the city." He emphasized that the requisite vigilance of officers was missing in the entire city.

Talking about his novel venture, Ravdeep Singh revealed: "We have few acres of land on the Airport Road. Sometime ago we decided to develop the land into a dream come true colony. For this endeavour we are going to follow rigid norms. We have planned unique features like a boundary wall around the colony, a personal sewerage treatment plant, a personal storm water drainage for maintaining the water table, solar street-lights, earthquake proof houses, separate submersible pumps, a swimming pool with its filter plant and a personal incinerator."

He added that the colony will also have a Country Club, a shopping complex with shop-cum-flats-cum-offices. Highlighting a unique feature, he said the houses will have a back boundary wall but no walls in the front. "A clean pollution free green area for the people of our city is our aim," he said.