Kharar and Kurali: The Bypass Opened. The Bottlenecks Didn't.

• 45 minCommute cutIT City–Kurali expressway, open
• 31.23 kmExpressway lengthaccess-controlled greenfield
• 2Flyovers still incompleteJatana Uncha, Khant Manpur
• ₹27.3 crApproved to finish themApril 2025

The good news, and it is substantial

The IT City–Kurali expressway is open and carrying traffic. It is not a modest link road:

• 31.23 km, with a carriageway of 12.5 to 13.5 metres;
• three major bridges, five minor bridges, seven flyovers, 23 underpasses and 83 culverts;
• a high-embankment, access-controlled greenfield alignment bypassing NH-205A;
• built to take pressure off Mohali, Kharar and Kurali, and to relieve Mohali's overburdened Airport Road by routing Delhi and Haryana traffic straight towards Kurali.

It is Package 2 of the wider Tricity ring road. Package 1 — the 30 km from Ambala–Hisar Road to IT City — was last reported around 75% complete with a May 2026 target, after which the full Chandigarh–Ambala expressway becomes operational.

The important word in all of this is open. Unlike almost everything else sold to Tricity buyers as future connectivity, you can drive this one today.

The part that has not been fixed

The Kharar–Ludhiana section of NH-05 — 76 km, six-laning across 54 km and four-laning across 22 km — was completed in March 2020 at a cost of about ₹2,100 crore. Three flyovers on it were not.

Five years on, the position was:

• the flyover at Bhaini Sahib junction completed and opened in January 2025;
• Jatana Uncha and Khant Manpur still incomplete, with traffic from both directions diverted into a single lane;
• those two points described as sites of daily jams and fatal accidents;
• ₹27.3 crore approved by the Centre in April 2025 to finish them.

A highway can be finished and still not work. That is the useful lesson here, and it applies well beyond Kharar.

What this means for where you buy

Kharar and Kurali are not one market. The relevant question is which corridor your property actually uses:

1. If your access is via the new expressway, you have received a real, delivered improvement — and it is already in the price to some degree, because the road opened.
2. If your daily route runs through the NH-05 bottlenecks, the expressway has helped by removing through-traffic, but your own commute still passes a single-lane diversion until those two flyovers are finished.
3. If you are on the old Kharar–Kurali road, the through-traffic relief is genuine and measurable. Go and confirm it at the hour you would travel.

The wider picture from here

Kurali sits at a junction of several things at once: the expressway, GMADA's 200-foot road running 7.55 km from the Mullanpur/UT boundary to the Kurali–Siswan T-junction, and the northern edge of the New Chandigarh development. Kharar sits between that and the older Mohali sectors.

Both are, in practice, the affordable route into the Mohali orbit for people priced out of Chandigarh — where registrations fell 39% while stamp duty collections rose 41%, a market doing fewer and larger deals. The demand arriving in Kharar is largely that displacement, and it is not speculative.

Before you buy in Kharar or Kurali

1. Drive your actual commute at 9am on a weekday. Not the expressway in isolation — the whole door-to-door route, including whatever junction you meet first.
2. Find out which road serves the plot and whether it connects to the expressway or feeds into NH-05.
3. Check the colony licence and RERA registration. This belt has expanded quickly; approvals have not always kept pace with marketing.
4. Ignore “values will double” claims. They appear in sponsored property columns about this corridor and are not forecasts anyone has staked anything on. The expressway is real; the doubling is a sales line.

Sources

• The Tribune — IT City–Kurali expressway opens, cuts commute by 45 minutes
• The Tribune — ₹27 crore approved for two incomplete flyovers on the Chandigarh–Ludhiana highway
• The Tribune — Chandigarh–Ambala expressway nears completion
• The Tribune — Land for all seven Mohali road projects handed to NHAI
• GMADA — Ongoing Projects (200-ft Mullanpur–Kurali–Siswan road)

Completion status changes. Verify the current position before relying on it. General information, not investment advice.