Union Minister for Road Transport, Nitin Gadkari, On Sunday announced that the new access control highway will be constructed between Delhi and Jaipur at an estimated cost of Rs. 16,000 crore.
The 270-km distance takes over six hours by road now , after the construction of express control highway it will take only 2 hours to reach Delhi to Jaipur. Referring to the new Delhi-Jaipur access control highway, Gadkari said the project would cost Rs 16,000 crore and work on it will be started in January, 2017. The land acquisition process for the new highway would be started soon.
Gadkari was at the event of inaugurating NH 8 in Hariyana -at function, Gadkari suggested that, land acquisition for this ambitious project is gonna start soon. He Suggested Manohar lal khattar to promote development along side of the highway’s. Which will bring down the cost.
He also assured he assured to start construction work on the Manesar-Gurgaon bye-pass in near future. The pilot project of Metrino System between Dhaula Kuan in Delhi and Manesar had been cleared and work would be started soon, he said.
The total cost of the NH would be 1005 crore and would be completed in 15 month’s time.