Government to launch 3 expressway projects at cost of Rs 1,32,000 crore

Government will soon launch three expressway projects that would reduce travel time significantly. This projects are Delhi-Amritsar-Katra, Delhi-Jaipur and Vadodara-Mumbai at a cost of about Rs 1,32,000 crore. As per the plan, Amritsar could be reached via Delhi in up to 3 hours after completion of the Rs 60,000 crore Amritsar-Delhi expressway which will reduce travel duration by over 2 hours. Also on the anvil is a project connecting Jalandhar to Ajmer that will bring down the travel time to 5 hours.

Road transport and highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said that three important expressway will soon start, and said that the travel distance to these destinations will reduce significantly once the projects are operationalised. In this regard meetings are scheduled with chief ministers of Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and Rajasthan.

Earlier, the minister laid the foundation stones of 12 major National Highway (NH) projects worth Rs 10,596.19 crore in the state Ropar, Samrala and Jalandhar. The road projects also include four-laning of Jalandhar-Barnala, Jalandhar-Hoshiarpur, Ropar-Phagwara, Kharar-Kurali, Chandigarh-Kharar and Kharar-Ludhiana roads, besides an elevated road in Ludhiana city. The minister further said that the projects will provide world-class road connectivity to commuters between Doaba and Malwa, along with adjoining Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, in the next 2 years.