NEW DELHI: On March 1, 2019, Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways laid the foundation stone for a 59-km six-lane national highway connecting New Delhi’s Ring Road with the under-construction Delhi-Mumbai Expressway. The project worth Rs 3,580 crore is part of nine other central government projects to decongest Delhi-NCR region.
The project will reduce traffic congestion in the Ashram-Badarpur-Faridabad-Ballabhgarh region. The project will have three lane service roads on either sides for about 29 km, 7.350 km of elevated section with two level crossings at four locations of the metro line, 18 new underpasses, and nine interchanges with improved junctions.
The Centre had announced a total of 10 projects costing Rs 35,600 crore to reduce Delhi’s vehicular pollution.
The other projects are – 3 km signal-free corridor from Dhaula Kuan to the Delhi airport, a 22 km elevated corridor connecting Gurugram and Sohna, 8-lane Delhi-Panipat highway from Mukarba Chowk on NH-1, the 82 km Delhi-Meerut Expressway (which is further divided into four projects), Rangpuri bypass to connect Dwarka/NH-08 with Vasant Kunj-Nelson Mandela Road, 4-laning 124 km Khekra– EPE junction to Shamli-Saharanpur (NH-709 B), and 75 km urban extension road six-lane corridor from Akshardham NH-24 junction to EPE junction on Baghpat road.