Punjab: This Farmer Is Moving His Two-storey House 500 Feet To Make Way For A Highway

A farmer from Punjab's Sangrur is moving his two-storey house 500 feet away from its current location to facilitate the construction of an expressway.

A farmer moves house 500 feet to make way for highway

This farmer named Sukhwinder Singh Sukhi is moving his home after the structure built on his field in Roshanwla village in Sangrur came in the way of the Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Expressway.

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The Punjab government was ready to pay Sukhi compensation to demolish the structure from the way but he refused. He then decided to shift the whole house to another place instead of demolishing it.

"I'm shifting the house as it was coming in the way of the Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Expressway. I was offered compensation but didn't want to build another house. I have spent around Rs 1.5 crore to build it," Sukhi told ANI.

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"It took me two years and Rs 1.5 crore to build this house. It's my dream project, I did not want to construct another house," the farmer said.

The house has been moved by 250 feet with the help of some construction workers from the farmer's village, and work is underway to achieve the target of 500 feet. According to the Tribune, the work to move it back has been given to a private contractor. It has been going on for the past two months and will take two more months to complete. The workers are able to move it about 10 feet every day. The total cost to move it will be around Rs 50 lakh.

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The house has also become a tourist attraction with people reaching the spot just to see how the work is being done.

The Delhi-Amritsar-Katra National Highway is an ambitious project to save the time and money of commuters who want to travel to Jammu and Kashmir from Delhi via Punjab.

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