PM Modi to lay foundation stone of Delhi-Meerut Expressway, UP CM to skip event

Mangalore Today News Network

New Delhi, Dec 31, 2015: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Thursday lay the foundation stone of ambitious Delhi-Meerut Expressway project, aimed at easing traffic congestion in the national capital. The Prime Minister had launched three important highway projects worth Rs 10,166 crore to decongest Delhi last month.

The total land required for three packages is 348.6 hectares of which 343.36 hectare has already been acquired.

The 87 km project besides 9 km connector will have 6 lane expressway and 4+4 lane highway, service roads, cycle tracks, flyovers, elevated sections, major and minor bridges, railway overbridges, vehicular underpasses and pedestrian underpasses, as per govt plan.

It is proposed that new alignment of the expressway from Dasna to Meerut and six-laning of Connector is also to be taken after the completion of 90 per cent land acquisition.

Bids for the Delhi-Hapur section of NH-24 project in three packages on new hybrid annuity model have been invited by the government.

The fourth package will be a new alignment of Delhi Meerut Expressway from Dasna to Meerut and six laning of connector.   

The project is proposed under four packages with the three packages Nizamuddin Bridge to UP Border, UP Border to Dasna and Dasna to Hapur at an estimated cost of Rs 2,809.6 crore.

The project is proposed under four packages with the three packages Nizamuddin Bridge to UP Border, UP Border to Dasna and Dasna to Hapur at an estimated cost of Rs 2,809.6 crore.

The alignment of Delhi-Meerut Express will start from Nizammudin Bridge from Delhi and will continue on existing NH 24 upto Dasna.   

An urgent need for an expressway was felt for unhindered fast and safe travel from Delhi to Meerut and vice versa and accordingly the project was prepared.

There is only one route - NH-58 between Delhi and Meerut on which the traffic remains jammed at several places, thus causing a lot of inconvenience to people commuting between Delhi and Meerut.