Several options in the offing for Delhi-Chandigarh commuters

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 16

With the trans-Haryana and Katra-Amritsar-Delhi road projects, more options will be available for people going from Chandigarh to Delhi. More options will reduce traffic and less time will be taken. The trans-Haryana project is a six-lane 304-km project from Ambala to Ismailabad to Kotputali. It is a green field project. It is expected to be completed by December 2022. It’s a Rs 10,000 crore project. It is expected to decongest National Highway-1 and National Highway-8.

Another ambitious project is the Katra-Amritsar-Delhi road, which will be 600-km long. About 135 km will fall in Haryana. About Rs 30,000 crore will be spent on it. It is a part of the Bharatmala project. It is expected to be awarded in December 2022 and will take three years to complete.

The Dwarka Expressway, which is also known as the Northern Peripheral Road, is coming up at a cost of Rs 8,667 crore and is expected to be completed by 2022. It will improve connectivity of Gurugram with Delhi and benefit those coming from the Delhi airport.

“With the completion of new projects, there will be more options for people commuting from Chandigarh to Delhi. The Dwarka Expressway will improve connectivity for those coming from the Delhi airport,” said RP Singh, Regional Officer for Punjab and Haryana, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).

Web of highways in state

On July 14, Union Minister for Road Transport, Highways and MSMEs Nitin Gadkari inaugurated three big road projects worth Rs 2,240 crore. These included a 35-km four-lane Rohna-Jhajjar section costing Rs 1,183 crore, 70-km four-laning of road from Punjab border to Jind costing Rs 857 crore and 85.36-km 2-lane Jind-Karnal highway costing Rs 200 crore.

He also laid the foundation stones for eight projects worth Rs 17,787 crore. These included 227-km six-lane access-controlled expressway from Ismailpur to Narnaul costing Rs 8,650 crore, 46.11-km four-lane Gurugram Pataudi-Rewari section costing Rs 1,524 crore, 14.4-km four-lane Rewari bypass costing Rs 928 crore, 30.45-km four-lane Rewari-Ateli section costing Rs 1,057 crore and 40.8-km six-lane Narnaul bypass costing Rs 1,380 crore.

He also laid the foundation stones for 40.6-km four-lane Jind-Gohana section costing Rs 1,207 crore, 38.23-km four-lane Gohana-Sonepat section costing Rs 1,502 crore and 40.47-km four-lane Uttar Pradesh border to Rohna costing Rs 1,509 crore. According to the NHAI, the length of national highways in Haryana, which was 2,050 km in 2014, was 3,237 km now.

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