Delhi-Mumbai Expressway Project: On Thursday, Road Transport and Highway Minister Nitin Gadkari announced that the Modi government is attempting to construct a separate ‘e-highway’ on the 1,300 km lengthy Delhi-Mumbai Expressway exactly where autos like buses and trucks can ply at 120 kmph speed. While replying to a query in the Parliament through Question Hour, the Union Minister mentioned the move is anticipated to bring expense of logistics down by 70%. Gadkari was quoted in a PTI report saying that on the 1,300 km highway among Delhi and Mumbai, his ministry is attempting to construct ‘e-highway’ adding that, nonetheless, no final choice has been taken on this.
The Road Transport and Highway Minister additional mentioned that the business- Siemens has made use of this technologies and constructed a comparable road in Germany. While replying to a different query, Gadkari mentioned that an quantity of Rs 60,000 crore has been spent on constructing roads such as the Dwarka Expressway, the eastern as properly as the western express bypass which will lessen the level of air pollution in the national capital.
It is becoming mentioned that the building work of the upcoming Delhi-Mumbai highway project will be completed in 51 packages. Once work on this project is completed, the length of the Delhi-Mumbai highway will be 1,320 kilometres in total. With this, this highway is set to turn into one of the country’s longest expressways. Earlier it was also reported that with the opening of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, the travel time among the national capital and monetary capital will lessen to 12 to 13 hours from 24 hours.
Passing by way of the states of Rajasthan, Haryana, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra, the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway project would also give a lot easier connectivity to the cities of Kota, Jaipur, Chittorgarh, Ujjain, Indore, Ahmedabad, Bhopal and Vadodara. Besides, when this highway is opened, the reduction in travel time and distance is also anticipated to have substantial financial advantages.