New express highway connecting Delhi and Mumbai will be built at cost of Rs.one lakh crore:Gadkari

Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Shipping, Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Shri Nitin Gadkari said a new express highway connecting Delhi and Mumbai will be built at a cost of Rs one lakh crore. 

The Minister also disclosed plans for a Chambal Expressway which would be connected to this Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, and is likely to benefit states like Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.

Addressing a media event in New Delhi today, Shri Nitin Gadkari outlined major initiatives of his ministry for de-congestion of Delhi NCR.He said a total of ten projects are underway costing



35,600 crore rupees. About forty thousand commercial vehicles enter Delhi on a daily basis, which cause increased pollution and congestion in the city state. 

The minister said an ambitious scheme of developing Eastern and Western Peripheral Expressways around Delhi was taken up, and the Eastern Peripheral Expressway will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on the 29th of this month. 

Similarly, to ease traffic in East Delhi, Delhi-Meerut Expressway was envisaged, and its Delhi-Dasna portion will also be inaugurated by PM on 29th April