Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday will visit Gurugram, Haryana to inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of 112 National Highway projects spread across the country, with a combined value of about Rs 1 lakh crore.
PM Modi will also inaugurate the Haryana section of the Dwarka Expressway, which will help improve traffic flow and ease congestion between Delhi and Gurugram on NH-48.
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 to be inaugurated 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 segments of Lucknow Ring Road, developed at a cost of about Rs 4,600 crore; 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) valued at around Rs. 3,400 crore in Himachal Pradesh; Dobaspet – Heskote section (two packages) worth Rs. 2,750 crore in Karnataka. He will also inaugurate 42 other projects worth Rs. 20,500 crore spread across different states in the country.
Furthermore, PM Modi will lay the foundation stone for several National Highway projects including 14 segments of Bengaluru – Kadappa – Vijayawada Expressway worth Rs. 14,000 crore in Andhra Pradesh; six packages of Belgaum – Hungund – Raichur Section of NH-748A worth Rs. 8,000 crore in Karnataka; three packages of Shamli – Ambala Highway worth Rs. 4,900 crore in Haryana; two packages of Amritsar – Bathinda corridor worth Rs. 3,800 crore in Punjab; and 39 other projects worth Rs. 32,700 crore in different states across the country.