Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate a stretch of the much-awaited Delhi-Mumbai Expressway on February 12. The 1,386-km freeway will join Delhi and Mumbai and could reduce the tour time to round 12 hours. Cities at the direction of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway can even come closer. Travel time among Delhi and Jaipur could be added down to two hours as soon as PM Modi inaugurates the Sohna-Dausa stretch of the freeway on Sunday.
Delhi-Mumbai Expressway: 10 things
1. Delhi-Mumbai Expressway could be an eight-lane access-managed greenfield freeway which in destiny may be extended to twelve lanes.
2. 15,000-hectare land has been obtained alongside 5 states — Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra.
3. There could be ninety four wayside services to enhance the commuter revel in at the freeway.
4. There could be 40+ foremost interchanges at the freeway with the intention to show connectivity to Kota, Indore, Jaipur, Bhopal, Vadodara and Surat.
5. The Sohna-Dausa stretch of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway challenge is probable to be opened for site visitors from Tuesday.
6. The challenge`s preliminary price range in 2018 was ₹98,000 crore. 12 lakh lots of metallic are for use for the development of the Delhi-Mumbai freeway that’s equal to 50 Howrah Bridges. The challenge goes to generate 10 crore man-days of employment.
7. Delhi-Mumbai freeway will reduce the space among Delhi and Mumbai brief via way of means of 180km (from 1,424 km to 1,242 km)
8. This is the primary freeway that advanced with a 21-meter median on standards of forgiving highways permitting inward expansion, delivery minister Nitin Gadkari said.
9. There could be a modern-day automatic site visitors control gadget at the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway.
10. This is the primary freeway in India and additionally Asia to house animal overpasses, underpasses. It has been aligned to minimise the effect in Ranthambore Wildlife Sanctuary.
