PM To Inaugurate Delhi-Mumbai Expressway Stretch Tomorrow

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dedicate a section of India's longest road tomorrow, February 12. The Delhi-Mumbai expressway's Sohna-Dausa section is anticipated to open to traffic on Tuesday.

By connecting Delhi and Mumbai, this 1,386-km highway will cut the distance's travel time in half, from 24 hours to about 12 hours. After PM Modi opens the Sohna-Dausa motorway section on Sunday, the distance between Delhi and Jaipur will just take two hours to travel.

When all the work is finished, it will be India's longest motorway, reducing the distance between cities' travel times. There would be more than 40 important interchanges to connect Kota, Indore, Jaipur, Bhopal, Vadodara, and Surat, as well as a 3-meter wide dedicated corridor for installing utility connections like solar power generation, optical fibre cables, and pipelines.

Along with having an automated traffic control system, the highway makes it possible to collect rainwater every 500 meters at more than 2,000 water recharge points. India's Delhi-Mumbai Expressway is the nation's longest motorway at 1,386 kilometres in length. It improves communication between Mumbai, India's financial centre, and the country's capital, Delhi.

In order to minimise travel time from 24 hours to 12 hours, an 8-lane access-controlled greenfield motorway would be developed with alignment optimization. It can also grow to 12 lanes in the future. The Delhi-Mumbai highway will be built using 12 lakh tonnes of steel, or the equivalent of 50 Howrah Bridges.

15,000 hectares of land have been purchased along the borders of the states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Haryana, and Delhi. 94 roadside facilities will be installed to enhance the commuting experience on the motorway. Ten billion man-days will be employed by the project.

According to Nitin Gadkari, minister of transport, this is the first motorway built with a 21-meter median on the tenets of forgiving roadways permitting inward expansion.

A cutting-edge automated traffic control system will be installed on the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway. Animal overpasses and underpasses are available on this road for the first time in Asia and India. The Ranthambore Wildlife Sanctuary's impact has been minimised by alignment.

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