Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate a stretch of the much-awaited Delhi-Mumbai Expressway on Sunday. The 246 km Delhi – Dausa –
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Sunday dedicate the first completed section, Delhi – Dausa – Lalsot of the Delhi Mumbai Expressway to the nation. The opening of the Rajasthan leg of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway will reduce the travel time from Delhi to Jaipur from 5 hours to around 3.5 hours and will provide a major boost to the economic development of the entire region.
The expressway will connect Delhi and Mumbai and will cut the travel time to around 12 hours.
Here are five things you should know about the 1st stretch of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway:
-The 246 km Delhi – Dausa – Lalsot section of the Delhi Mumbai Expressway has been developed at a cost of more than Rs 12,150 crore.
The inauguration of the Rajasthan leg of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway is seen as big infrastructure push by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the 2024 general elections. It will have eight lanes and will be India’s longest expressway.Delhi-Mumbai Expressway will be India’s longest expressway with a length of 1,386 km. It will reduce travel distance between Delhi and Mumbai by 12% from 1,424 km to 1,242 Km and travel time will be reduced by 50% from 24 hrs to 12 hrs.Delhi-Mumbai Expressway will pass through six states: Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra and connect major cities like Kota, Indore, Jaipur, Bhopal, Vadodara and Surat. The Expressway will also serve 93 PM Gati Shakti Economic Nodes, 13 Ports, 8 Major Airports and 8 multi-modal logistics parks (MMLPs) along with spurs to new upcoming greenfield airports such as Jewar Airport, Navi Mumbai Airport and JNPT port.
The Expressway will have a catalytic impact on the developmental trajectory of all adjoining regions, thus contributing in a major way in the economic transformation of the country.
-This is the first expressway in India and also Asia to accommodate animal overpasses and underpasses. It has been aligned to minimise the impact on Ranthambore Wildlife Sanctuary.
-The Delhi-Mumbai Expressway construction will consume Rs 25,000 lakh tons of bitumen while over 4,000 trained civil engineers will be employed during work, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said.
Including these, two world records also have been created for the highest quantity of PQC laid in 24 hours and the highest quantity of dense bitumen laid in 100 hours, he said.
