Haryana leg of Dwarka e-way to open this month
Sumedha Sharma
Gurugram, February 6
Central Minister and Gurugram MP Rao Inderjit Singh has announced that the Haryana leg of the Dwarka Expressway here would be opened this month.
Total cost pegged at Rs 10,000 crore
- The Dwarka Expressway is 29 km long, of which 18.9 km falls in Haryana and the remaining 10.1 km in Delhi
- The expressway starts at Shiv Murti on National Highway 8 and terminates near the Kherki Daula toll plaza
- The total cost of the project is estimated at Rs 10,000 crore
This was announced following a meeting with Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari.
MP Rao said Gadkari had instructed officials of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to open the Gurugram section of the much-delayed expressway instead of waiting for its completion of the Delhi side.
“It will take another four to five months to complete the work on the Delhi section. The Gurugram section is all ready and residents have been seeking its inauguration for long. Gadkari has instructed the NHAI officials to open the stretch for vehicular movement,” said the MP while speaking to The Tribune.
The Dwarka Expressway is 29-km-long, of which 18.9 km fall in Haryana and the remaining 10.1 km in Delhi. The expressway starts at Shiv-Murti on the National Highway-8 and terminates near the Kherki Daula toll plaza. The total cost of the project is estimated to be Rs 10,000 crore.
The present alignment is proposed to connect Sector 21 in Dwarka with NH-8 passing through Sectors 88, 84, 83, and 99-113 in Gurugram.
The Dwarka Expressway is divided into four packages; the first is connecting Shiv Murti near Mahipalpur to Dwarka, the second connecting Dwarka Urban Extension Road (UER) to Bajghera, the third between Bajghera to Basai railway overbridge (ROB) and the fourth between Basai ROB to Kherki Daula.
The packages three and four that lie in Haryana have been completed.
It may be noted that the state Transport Department is planning to build a state-of-the-art interstate bus terminal near Dwarka Expressway in Gurugram’s Sector 36A to replace the current one in Sector 12.
The Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation has been directed by the state government to transfer 15 acres of land to the Transport Department for the new bus terminal free of cost.
The MP raised the issue of the removal of Kherki Daula toll plaza stating that the contract period of the toll plaza had expired and the government was ready with an alternative site.
