Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways, today (1 March) laid the foundation stone for a six-lane access-controlled NH project at Kalindi Kunj-Meethapur Road in Delhi.
The 59 km long highway will begin at Ring Road-DND junction passing through Kalindi bypass and Faridabad-Ballabhgarh bypass and shall finish at the interchange of Delhi-Mumbai Expressway at KMP, reports Press Information Bureau.
The project shall have 7,350 km of the elevated section with two level crossings at four locations of Metro line, 3+3 lane service roads on either side for about 29 km, nine interchanges with improved junctions and 18 new underpasses.
With this project, traffic congestion in Delhi’s Ashram-Badarpur-Faridabad-Ballabhgarh region shall be significantly reduced. Furthermore, a reduction in vehicular pollution is also expected.