Netizens in awe after Nitin Gadkari shares latest pics of Delhi-Mumbai Expressway
Once operational, the expressway will cut travel time from 24 to 12 hours between the two metros.
Social media platforms are flooded with heaps of praise for Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari after the minister shared a few glimpses of the much-awaited Delhi-Mumbai Expressway on Twitter. The engineering marvel will cover a total stretch of 1386 kilometers and will cut travel time from 24 to 12 hours between the two metro cities.
Gadkari informed that the road is the “world’s fastest developed expressway” and will provide connectivity to three national master plans namely, eight Multi-Modal Logistics Parks (MMLPs), Greenfield Airports (Jewar and Navi Mumbai) and Ports (Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust). He added that the 8-lane, access-controlled, greenfield motorway with alignment optimization has been built with the future in mind as it has the scope of 12-lane expansion as and when needed.
The minister also tweeted, that “wayside amenities are being developed across the corridor to provide standardized World-Class infrastructure and ancillary services for the highway network.” The world-class expressway will pass through Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and Maharashtra and thus help in improving connectivity across these states.
The first stretch of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway which runs from Sohna in Haryana to Dausa in Rajasthan will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 12, and will reduce the travel time between Delhi and Jaipur to around two hours. As per reports, the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway is being built at an estimated cost of 1 lakh crore and is likely to become fully operational by the end of 2023.
