Upcoming Highways to Boost India's Road Infrastructure

1. Delhi-Mumbai Expressway:

This 1,350 km long, 8-lane wide (expandable to 12-lane) expressway is under construction access-controlled expressway connecting India's national capital New Delhi with Mumbai. 

This Expressway will connect Sohna Elevated Corridor

-Delhi to Jawaharlal Nehru Port in Maharashtra via Dausa, Kota, Ratlam, Vadodara and Surat. 

-It passes through the Union territory of Delhi and the states of Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra. 

The main length of the expressway is from Sohna to Virar only i.e. 1,198 km. 

This project's total cost is around Rs 1,00,000 crores. An additional 31 km long spur will also be constructed by the NHAI from Noida International Airport in Jewar to Sector-65, Faridabad on this expressway (DND–KMP Expressway).

This will reduce the current 24-hour travel time to 12 hours.

2. Mumbai-Nagpur Expressway: 

Nagpur-Mumbai Expressway (officially known as Hindu Hrudaysamrat Balasaheb Thackeray Maharashtra Samruddhi Mahamarg) and Maharashtra Expressway-2 (ME-2), is a partially opened 6-lane wide 701-km long access-controlled expressway. 

It is one of the country's longest greenfield road projects connecting two capital cities of the state. The expressway will travel through 10 key districts directly and 14 districts indirectly. 

The first phase from Nagpur to Shirdi was inaugurated and opened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 11 December 2022, while the second phase until Mumbai will be opened in December 2023.

Another 80 km was opened on May 26, 2023.

Travel time will consist of only 8 hours.

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3. Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Expressway: 

This 648-km-long expressway will link the Bahadurgarh border with Katra, travel time will be a matter of Hrs. This 4-lane (expandable to 8 lanes) wide controlled-access expressway, will connect the Bahadurgarh border near Delhi with Katra in Jammu and Kashmir via Haryana and Punjab.

It will have a trauma centre, ambulances, fire brigades, traffic police, bus bays, truck stops, interchanges with refreshments, and recreational facilities. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi to inaugurate Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Expressway before 2024 LS polls: Nitin Gadkari

 

4. Dwarka expressway:

The country's first 8-lane elevated urban highway will take off from km 20 of NH 48 (old NH 8) at Shiv Murti in Mahipalpur in Delhi and terminate at km 40 of NH 48 near Kherki Daula Toll Plaza in Gurgaon in Haryana.

The entire project, costing Rs 7,500 crore was planned in 2006, the contract was awarded in 2011. One of the causes of the delay was due to NHAI's need for the land from DDA to transplant 13,000 trees from the route alignment, which in November 2018 Delhi's Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal agreed to provide after several years of inexplicable delays.

This expressway is likely to open next year in April.

5. Ganga highway:

This Greenfield expressway in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India is being constructed in two phases.

Phase-1 will connect Bijauli village on NH-334 in Meerut district with Judapur Dandu village on NH-19 in Prayagraj district.

Phase-2 will see the extension of both sides of the expressway: from Prayagraj to Ballia and from Meerut to Haridwar.  

Uttar Pradesh Cabinet gives Rs 36,230 crore clearance to build the expressway. 

Includes 12 cities, connected by this 6-lane motorway with an expected cost of Rs 40,000 cr. 

The expressway is now expected to be completed by December 2024.

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6. Ahmedabad Dholera Expressway:

The 109km-long, 4-lane access-controlled motorway will improve accessibility to the Dholera Special Investment Region. It will connect Sardar Patel Ring Road near Sarkhej in Ahmedabad with Adhelai village in Bhavnagar district via Dholera Special Investment Region (DSIR). The proposed Dholera International Airport near Navagam, about 20 km (12 mi) from Dholera SIR will also lie in the route.

NHAI divided the construction work of the Ahmedabad–Dholera Expressway into four packages. Its total construction cost (excluding the cost of land) is about Rs 3,196 crores.

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