PM to inaugurate Eastern Peripheral Expressway on Apr 29

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New Delhi : Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Shipping, Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Nitin Gadkari on April 16, 2018, announced development of a new highway alignment between Delhi and Mumbai. A sum of Rs one lakh crore will be spent on this expressway.

The Minister also disclosed plans for a Chambal Expressway which would be connected to this Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, and is likely to benefit states like Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, where the backward areas will also shine like Gurugram. Addressing a media event in New Delhi, Gadkari outlined major initiatives of his ministry for de-congestion of Delhi NCR. A total of ten projects are underway costing Rs 35,600 crore.

Gadkari said that about 40,000 commercial vehicles enter Delhi on a daily basis, which cause increased pollution and congestion in the city state. An ambitious scheme of developing Eastern and Western Peripheral Expressways (WPE) around Delhi was taken up, and the Eastern Peripheral Expressway (EPE) will be inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi on April 29, 2018. Similarly, to ease traffic in East Delhi, Delhi-Meerut Expressway was envisaged, and its Delhi-Dasna portion will also be inaugurated by PM Modi onApril  29, 2018, by a road- show.

Gadkari informed that work on signal free corridor from Dhaula Kuan to Airport has been awarded at a cost of Rs 260 crore. He said that an eight-lane fully access-controlled Dwarka Expressway is being developed in four packages. The work on the Expressway is likely to start in a month’s time. Total investment on the project is Rs 9,500 crore. Additionally, under improvement of Mahipalpur at Rangpuri, a bypass is being envisaged to connect Dwarka/ NH8.

Regarding development of major junctions on NH8 in Gurugram like the flyover/ underpass at IFFCO Chowk, Signature Tower intersection, Rajiv Chowk and  Hero Honda Chowk, Gadkari informed that the work costing Rs 1,000 crore has been substantially completed, according to a PIB release.