NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday will launch the 246-kilometer Delhi-Dausa-Lalsot segment of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway. This new addition to the expressway will reduce the travel time from Delhi to Jaipur from five hours to approximately three and a half hours.
Below are the key points of this expressway:
Below are the key points of this expressway:
- Developed at a cost of more than Rs 12,150 crore, this first completed section of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway will provide a major boost to the economic development of the entire region. Modi will launch road development projects worth more than Rs 18,100 crore from Dausa.
- The Delhi-Mumbai Expressway will be the India’s longest with the length of 1,386 km. It will reduce travel distance between Delhi and Mumbai by 12%, from 1,424 km to 1,242 km, while the travel time will be cut by 50%, from the current 24 hours to 12 hours.
- The expressway will pass through six states of Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra and connect major cities like
Kota , Indore, Jaipur, Bhopal, Vadodara and Surat. - It will also serve 93 PM Gati Shakti Economic Nodes, 13 ports, eight major airports and eight multi-modal logistics parks (MMLPs) along with spurs to new upcoming greenfield airports such as Jewar Airport, Navi Mumbai Airport and JNPT port.
- During the programme, Modi will also lay the foundation stone of 247 km of national highway projects to be developed at a cost of more than Rs 5,940 crore