Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday mentioned he is hopeful that the building work on the country’s initial grade-separated urban expressway, Dwarka Expressway, worth Rs 8,662 crore will be completed prior to 15 August 2022. The minister was reviewing the progress work on the 29 km extended expressway, which hyperlinks Dwarka in the national capital, Delhi to Gurugram. According to the minister, the Dwarka Expressway will immensely enable decreasing air pollution in Delhi-NCR. Also, it is the initial instance of a project exactly where the plantation of about 12,000 trees has been undertaken. Based on this expertise, the system will be replicated across the nation, the minister mentioned.
According to the minister, at present, the Delhi-Gurugram section of NH-8, a element of the Delhi-Jaipur-Ahmedabad-Mumbai arm of Golden Quadrilateral, carries targeted traffic of more than 3 lakh Passenger Car Units, which is beyond the design and style capacity of this eight-lane highway. This usually leads to extreme congestion, even so, with the building of this road project, 50%-60% targeted traffic on NH-8 will be lowered. The project is also probably to provide practically 50 thousand direct or indirect job possibilities. The project is becoming constructed in 4 packages. The expressway’s total length is 29 km out of which 18.9 km length falls in the state of Haryana though the remaining 10.1 km length is in the national capital. The expressway starts from Shiv-Murti on NH-8 and ends close to Kherki Daula Toll Plaza.
Once comprehensive, the project will be an engineering marvel of the nation as it has various exceptional options. The Dwarka Expressway will have India’s longest (3.6 km) as properly as the widest (eight lane) Urban Road Tunnel. Also, the Dwarka Expressway project’s road network will consist of 4 levels, i.e., at-grade road, tunnel/underpass, elevated flyover as properly as flyover above flyover. The road project will also comprise India’s initial ever 9 km extended eight-lane flyover (34 metre wide) on a single pier with six-lane service roads.
According to the ministry, there will be a tolling technique, which will be completely automated with 22 lanes toll plaza and the whole expressway project will be equipped with ITS. The project will involve an estimated consumption of two lakh MT of steel in total, which is 30 instances that of the globe-popular Eiffel Tower in France. Besides, the estimated total consumption of 20 lakh Cum of Concrete is Burj Khalifa building’s six instances, the ministry added.