Infrastructure plays an important role in countries’ development. If you have proper connectivity via the expressway will minimise all the travel duration. Expressways are the highest class of roads in India.
On the expressway in India, vehicles can pass through a limited place where no other road can merge or cross it.
An expressway consists of access ramps, grade separation, lane dividers and elevated sections.
India’s longest expressway is the Puravanchal Expressway, which covers a distance of 340.8 km, and the Delhi-Meerut Expressway has 14 lanes and is the widest expressway.
The development of the expressway is operate under the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, which looks after the maintenance of expressways.
The Union Minister of Road Transport and Highway, Nitin Gadkari, in his current address to the Rajya Sabha mention the National Highway Authority of India(NHAI) for constructing over 1.47 lakh km of road connectivity across India.
Nitin Gadkari also said that NHAI has start building 22 green highways which will be complete by the end of 2024.
Full List of All Expressways in India Under Construction
NAME | COMPLETION DATE | ESTIMATED COST(IN CR) | RANGE OF THE HIGHWAY(IN KM) |
Ahmedabad-Dholera Expressway | March 2023 | Rs 3,500 | 109 |
Amritsar-Jamnagar Expressway | March 2023 | Rs 3,500 | 109 |
Bangalore-Chennai Expressway | March 2024 | Rs 17,000 | 260.85 |
Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor | August 2022 | Rs 8,066 | 119 |
Bundelkhand Expressway | April 2022 | Rs 14,716 | 296 |
Chennai Port-Maduravoyal Expressway | Under construction | Rs 5,965 | 20.5 |
Coastal Road(Mumbai) Expressway | June 2022 | Rs 12,750 | 10 |
DND-KMP Expressway | Under construction | Rs 3, 580 | 59 |
Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Expressway | December 2023 | Rs 39,500 | 669 |
Delhi-Mumbai Expressway | March 2023 | Rs 1,00,000 | 1350 |
Dwarka Expressway | August 2022 | Rs 8,662 | 29.10 |
Ganga Expressway(Meerut-Prayagraj) Expressway | Under Construction | Rs 4,000 | 594 |
Trans-Haryana Expressway (AmbalaNarnaul) | March 2022 | Rs 5, 108 | 227 |
Gorakhpur Link Expressway | March 2022 | Rs 5,876 | 91.352 |
Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway | October 2023 | Rs 4,700 | 63 |
Mumbai-Nagpur Expressway | May 2022 | Rs 55,000 | 701 |
Pathankot-Ajmer Expressway | March 2023 | Rs 8,000 | 600 |
Raipur-Visakhapatnam Expressway | March 2024 | Rs 20,000 | 464 |