The much-awaited Delhi-Meerut Expressway (DME), pegged as a smart highway, was opened for public on Thursday after the completion of its remaining stretches.
The broken span is part of the 29-km long expressway, which is intended to connect Kherki Daula on the Delhi-Gurugram Expressway with Shiv Murti near Mahipalpur
He added that the government's ambitious Delhi-Mumbai Expressway would be ready by 2022.
'We are trying to build 'e-highway' on the 1,300-km highway between Delhi and Mumbai,' Gadkari said
NHAI is deploying a new bitumen technology to increase its longevity
May borrow Rs 9,000 cr this year even as it has offers of Rs 29,000 cr
The Cabinet also approved a district-wise alignment of the Expressway, an official release said on Wednesday
The state government is looking at throwing open these expressways for the public before the 2022 poll bugle is sounded
Highways builder Dilip Buildcon on Wednesday said its joint venture has emerged as the lowest bidder for a stretch of the Delhi-Vadodara expressway in Rajasthan.
State govt will borrow Rs 2,250 crore in all for the project, PNB's share stands at Rs 750 crore
The 628 km project is branded as world's longest access controlled road
The company said the construction period for the stretch is 730 days, while operation period is 15 years
NHAI is currently implementing about 28,000 km under 'Bharatmala Pariyojna' Phase-1. Under this, Delhi-Mumbai Expressway is one of the flagship highways corridors
Chief Minister Adityanath has called for setting up townships within a radius of two km on either side of three key expressways
The project is a greenfield project and the concession comprises 730 days for construction and 15 years operations and maintenance rights thereafter
The greenfield expressway will connect Delhi to Amritsar via a shorter alignment and will also extend to Vaishno Devi shrine in Jammu
State raise Rs 9,000 cr in loans for part-finance the initiatives
Areas that are away from urban centres and where there have been minimal Covid-19 cases may be exempt; Maharashtra said to have allowed work on expressway connecting Mumbai and Nagpur
Addressing an event at Manesar in Haryana's Gurgaon district, he also said the expressway will cut the travel time between Delhi to Mumbai by almost half
Additional Solicitor General A N S Nadkarni, appearing for the Centre, referred to the affidavit and said the Delhi government should pay the dues.