10-key points about the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway

The Delhi-Mumbai Expressway apart from cutting down travel time will also support the growth of industries and businesses

New Delhi, Feb 11: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on February 12 inaugurate a stretch of the much anticipated Delhi-Mumbai Expressway.

Travel time between Delhi and Mumbai will be cut to around 12 hours from the existing 24 hours once the 1,386-km expressway is completed. The expressway will also connect major cities such as Jaipur. For instance the travel time from Delhi to Jaipur would be brought down to just 2 hours once PM Modi inaugurates the Sohna-Dausa stretch of the expressway on Sunday.

The expressway will parallel to the existing National Highway 8. The Expressway is expected to provide a more comfortable and safe mode of transport for passengers. It would also support the growth of industries and businesses along the route.

10 key points about the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway:

1. 15,00 hectares of land have been acquired along five states-Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra
2. The expressway will be an eight-lane access controlled greenfield expressway. This can be expanded to 12 lanes in the future
3. There would be more than 40 major interchanges on the expressway which will. Give connectivity to Kota, Indore, Jaipur, Bhopal, Vadodara and Surat
4. This is the first expressway to accommodate animal overpasses, underpasses and has been aligned to minimise the impact on the Ranthambore Wildlife Sanctuary
5. To improve commuter experience, there will be 94 wayside amenities
6. The Soha-Daua expressway stretch is likely to be open for public from Tuesday
7. The Delhi-Mumbai expressway will cut the distance between the two cities to 1,242 kilometres from the existing 1,424
8. 12 lakh tonnes of steel have been used for the construction of the expressway. The initial budget of the project in 2018 was Rs 98,000 crore
9. There will be a state-of-the-art automated traffic management system on the Delhi-Mumbai expressway
10. The project is going to generate 10 crore man-days employment