Work on KMP expressway to restart next month: Khattar

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 28

Abandoned for two years and delayed by more than five years, work on the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Expressway spanning five districts of Sonepat, Jhajjar, Gurgaon, Mewat and Palwal will begin next month.

Now, it will be a six-lane expressway, not four-laned, as planned earlier.

CM Manohar Lal Khattar said that while work on the Manesar-Palwal section would resume within one month and completed in less than one year, it would be taken up on the Kundli-Manesar section in three months.

“We have taken the initiative to convert the dream into reality. While the HSIIDC today allotted work for the Manesar-Palwal section on Item Rate Mode (IRM) which would start shortly, bids for the Kundli-Manesar section are being invited and work on this stretch will hopefully take off in three months,” he added.

In compliance of Supreme Court orders dated January 30, 2015, the state took the decision to terminate the contract and have a new concessionaire.

Khattar said that the HSIIDC had allotted work for the Manesar-Palwal section on IRM which would start in a month and would be completed in a year.

While no bids were received on BOT (Toll) mode, three bids were received for the Manesar-Palwal Section on IRM.

Bids for the Kundli-Manesar section are also being invited on BOT (Annuity) mode by May, 2015. With this initiative, it is anticipated that work on this section will also take off in three months.

“With completion of the much delayed project, northern Haryana will have high-speed connectivity with southern districts like Gurgaon, Faridabad and Palwal, the National Capital Territory will be decongested as traffic from the northern parts of the country headed for other regions, would not need to cross Delhi, and pollution will be reduced considerably,” the CM added.