Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday inaugurated and laid the foundation stone for 112 National Highway projects spread across the country, with a total value of about Rs 1 lakh crore.
To help improve traffic flow and ease congestion between Delhi and Gurugram on NH-48, PM Modi also inaugurated the Haryana section of the Dwarka Expressway.
Earlier, PM Modi along with Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar and Union Minister Nitin Gadkari inspected the model of the Dwarka Expressway and interacted with the construction workers.
The 19-km-long section of the eight-lane Dwarka Expressway has been built at a cost of around Rs. 4,100 crore. It includes two segments: a 10.2 km long stretch from Delhi-Haryana Border to Basai Rail-over-Bridge (ROB) and an 8.7 km-long section from Basai ROB to Kherki Daula. It will provide direct connectivity to the IGI Airport in Delhi and the Gurugram bypass.
Other major projects inaugurated by the Prime Minister include the 9.6 km-long six-lane Urban Extension Road-II (UER-II)- Package 3 from Nangloi – Najafgarh Road to Sector 24 Dwarka section in Delhi; three packages of Lucknow Ring Road developed at cost of about Rs. 4,600 crore in Uttar Pradesh; Anandapuram – Pendurthi – Anakapalli section of NH16 developed at a cost of about Rs 2,950 crore in Andhra Pradesh; Kiratpur to Nerchowk section of NH-21 (2 packages) worth around Rs. 3,400 crore in Himachal Pradesh; Dobaspet – Heskote section (two packages) worth Rs. 2,750 crore in Karnataka, along with 42 other projects worth Rs. 20,500 crores in different states across the country.
(Inputs from ANI)