This will be only the second municipal corporation election across four of Ward 1’s five main constituent pockets, yet local residents remain sharply divided over how much has actually changed since the panchayats were disbanded and their villages were brought under the Chandigarh MC. Lal dora constraints, traffic congestion, and poor sanitation remain the major grievances here, even as some residents acknowledge that municipal inclusion has upgraded certain roads and brought incremental improvements like streetlights.
The policy fallout of lal dora (red thread boundary demarcating village habitation outside municipal building bylaws) restrictions is obvious in the stark contrast between neighbouring Kansal and Kaimbwala. However, Congress ward president Naresh Kumar Goldy Pandit contends that the sitting AAP councillor achieved baseline progress during the ward’s maiden MC term, pointing to paver-block tiling across villages and initial pond restoration work in Kaimbwala and Khuda Ali Sher. The incoming councillor must prioritise building a community centre for village weddings and establishing public parks for senior citizens. A: My performance has been very good. We constructed dharamshalas, eliminated dark spots by installing streetlights, and pushed overall ward development forward.
Dispensaries in the villages lacked doctors, which I rectified by directly coordinating with Government Medical and Super-specialty Hospital, Sector 16, Chandigarh.
Kaimbwala remains an underdeveloped rural settlement under Chandigarh MC control, according to local BJP mandal president Gurmeet Singh While Kansal comes under Punjab jurisdiction and has seen a surge in high-end fine dining and sports venues. However, he says civic gaps remain.
