The residents have sent their objections to Chief Town Planner, Punjab. They have stated that while neighbouring colonies like Janta Nagar, Shimlapuri, Guru Nanak Colony and Shaheed Karnail Singh Nagar areas have been given residential status, their colonies have been labelled for mixed land use. This, they have said, will give a licence to industrial units to mushroom in the area.

In a letter sent to the MC’s Town Planning Wing, Balbir Singh Sooch, a resident of Vishvkarma Colony said, “Industries create noise, air and water pollution in our area. They have been operating in these colonies for the past many years despite the fact that the areas are residential. Many of the industries have not even obtained NoCs from various departments and despite repeated complaints by the residents they are still operational... We had a hope from the masterplan but we are really surprised the way the plan has come out”.

Though the masterplan has declared Janta Nagar and Shimlapuri areas as residential, industrial associations in these areas are trying their level best to get mixed land use status for them. According to certain industrial associations, nearly 6,000 units will have to move out if the masterplan recommendations are implemented for these colonies.