New Delhi: Union Transport and Highway Minister Nitin Gadkari inspected the 212-km Delhi-Dehradun expressway, built at a cost of ₹12,000 crores, and claimed that the project will be completed by the end of December this year.
According to reports, the expressway has been divided into four sections and is being constructed starting from Delhi-Mumbai Expressway (DME) near Akshardham in Delhi, Shastri Park, Khajuri Khas, EPE interchange at Khekra in Mandola, Baghpat, Shamli, Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh to Dehradun, Uttarakhand.
Speaking at the fifth Ayodhya Parv, Nitin Gadkari said, “People will be travelling from Delhi to Dehradun in just two hours and Delhi to Haridwar in 90 minutes as the construction work of the Delhi-Dehradun Expressway will be complete by the end of December this year,”.
The construction is being carried out with several special provisions which include that the entire corridor from Ganeshpur to Dehradun has been kept safe for wildlife.
The report further added that “there is a provision for a 12 km elevated road, six animal underpasses, two elephant underpasses, two major bridges and 13 minor bridges.”
(With Agency Inputs)\
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