New Delhi: Nitin Gadkari, union minister for road transport and highways, on Thursday announced road projects worth ₹12,500 crore to address pollution and traffic congestion in the national capital, which is currently in the grip of election fever with Delhi likely to cast they vote in February. In addition, he approved ₹1,200 crore from the Central Road and Infrastructure Fund (CRIF) for Delhi.
Nitin Gadkari announced a day after seven lawmakers from Delhi met him, seeking the Centre’s approval for projects that include the construction of a road connecting Urban Extension Road-II with the Delhi-Katra Expressway, allowing vehicles to travel from the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway to Indira Gandhi International Airport and vice versa.
Along with this, CRIF fund of Rs 1200 crore was also announced in Delhi. By providing connectivity from UER-II to Delhi-Katra Expressway via KMPE, vehicles coming from Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab will get direct connectivity to Indira Gandhi International Airport and the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway. Providing direct connectivity from UER-II near Alipur to Delhi-Dehradun Expressway near Tronica City will facilitate vehicles going to Dehradun from Haryana, Rajasthan.
For vehicles coming from Dehradun, alternative connectivity will be available from UER-II and Dwarka Expressway to Indira Gandhi International Airport. Travel time will be reduced from one and a half hours to 45 minutes. Along with this, constructing a tunnel from Shiv Murti to Nelson Mandela Marg (Vasant Kunj) will solve the traffic jam problem in Mahipalpur and Rangpuri areas. People of Delhi and Gurugram will get relief from traffic jams. This route will work as a bypass in East Delhi by providing connectivity fromthe Delhi-Dehradun Expressway to Noida. North Delhi, North-West Delhi, and South-West Delhi will get direct connectivity to Noida via Ghaziabad.
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