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DELHI-MUMBAI EXPRESSWAY: "EMPOWER IAS"

DELHI-MUMBAI EXPRESSWAY: "EMPOWER IAS"

In news:

  • Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Friday concluded the two-day review of the work progress on the 1380-km eight-lane Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, which will reduce travel time between certain cities to 12-12.5 hours from 24 hours.

 

About:

  • Cost: Rs 98,000 crore.
     
  • Length: 1,380 km.
     
  • Completion schedule: The first phase from Delhi-Jaipur (Dausa)-Lalsot and Vadodara-Ankleshwar is expected to be open to traffic by March 2022. The expressway is expected to be completed by March 2023.
     
  • The project was kickstarted in 2018 with the foundation stone being laid on March 9, 2019.
     
  • The expressway will feature a spur to Jewar Airport and Jawaharlal Nehru Port to Mumbai through a spur in Mumbai.
     
  • The expressway will improve connectivity to economic hubs like Jaipur, Kishangarh, Ajmer, Kota, Chittorgarh, Udaipur, Bhopal, Ujjain, Indore, Ahmedabad, Vadodara and Surat.
     
  • The eight-lane access-controlled expressway can be expanded to a 12-lane expressway depending on the volume of traffic.
     
  • The expressway is the first in Asia and only the second in the world to feature animal overpasses to facilitate unrestricted movement of wildlife.