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      Delhi-Mumbai World’s Longest Expressway to open in March 2023 | Features of Delhi-Mumbai Expressway

      Union Minister Nitin Gadkari done the two-day review of the work progress on the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway. World’s longest 1380 kilometres eight-lane expressway will reduce travel time between certain cities to 12-12.5 hours from 24 hours.

      For two days to review the project’s progress the Road Transport and Highways Minister toured Delhi, Rajasthan, Haryana, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh.

      This project is being constructed at a cost of Rs 98,000 crore and is schedule for completion by March 2023.

      The first phase of the highway from Delhi-Jaipur (Dausa)-Lalsot as well as Vadodara-Ankleshwar is likely to be open by March 2022.

      This highway project was starts in the year 2018 with the project’s foundation stone being laid on 9th March 2019.

      When it is ready then the expressway will feature a distance to Noida International Airport and Jawaharlal Nehru Port to Mumbai.

      The project is expect to improve connectivity to economic hubs of India like Jaipur, Ajmer, Kishangarh, Chittorgarh, Kota, Udaipur, Ujjain, Bhopal, Indore, Vadodara, Ahmedabad and Surat.

      Out of the total of 1,380 kilometres the contracts have been awarded for more than 1,200 kilometres where work is currently under progress.

      Over 15,000 hectares of land has been acquire across states.

      Features of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway :

      • The Delhi-Mumbai expressway which is eight-lane access-control can be expands to a 12-lane expressway depending on the traffic volume
      • Delhi-Mumbai Expressway will boast wayside amenities such as resorts, food courts, restaurants, fuel stations, logistics parks, facilities for truckers
      • Delhi-Mumbai Expressway will offer helicopter ambulance service as well as a heliport, which will use drone services for business for accident victims
      • Two million trees and shrubs are plan to be planted
      • The Delhi-Mumbai Expressway project is Asia’s first and the world’s second to include animal overpasses in order to facilitate unrestricted wildlife movement
      • Delhi-Mumbai Expressway will also involve two iconic eight-lane tunnels
      • The Delhi-Mumbai Expressway will result in annual savings of more than 320 million litres of fuel as well as reduce Carbon dioxide emissions by 850 million kg
      • Over 12 lakh tonnes of steel will be consume in the project’s construction which is equivalent to constructing 50 Howrah bridges
      • For Delhi-Mumbai Expressway 80 lakh tonnes of cement will be consume which is around 2% of the country’s annual cement production capacity
      • Delhi-Mumbai Expressway project has also created job opportunities for thousands of trained civil engineers apart from generating over 50 lakh man days of work.
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