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Finally, there’s some good news for the harassed drivers jostling for space on Delhi’s roads. Construction of the 136-km Kundli-Manesar-Palwal Expressway is to begin next month and has to be completed within three years. This is expected to rid Delhi of at least half the traffic from other states passing through the city for other destinations.

The last hurdle was cleared with the Haryana State Industrial Development Corporation (HSIDC) holding public hearings for environmental impact assessment of the project in Gurgaon and Faridabad on Monday and Tuesday. HSIDC officials said the deadline has been set for November 2009 and sources at KMP Expressway, the developers, said they would try to complete it even earlier than that. ‘‘We have already moved machinery in order to complete the project ahead of the deadline,’’ said an official.

The HSIDC has already acquired land in a width of 100 metres along the alignment of the proposed expressway. It will take off from NH-1 near Kundli and intersect NH-10 at West Bahadurgarh and NH-8 near Manesar, finally joining NH-2 near Palwal. The expressway will be a dual carriageway with four lanes with a provision for widening it to six lanes. Hence, major traffic coming from Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan will no longer need to enter Delhi.

The expressway had been proposed following Supreme Court orders, on December 16, 2001 and July 15, 2002, that no heavy, medium and light goods vehicles on interstate routes would ply through Delhi. It had also ordered that there could be no corridor or bypass joining different national highways through the Capital.

The expressway will have grade separators at intersections. To keep this stretch exclusively for high-speed traffic, no slow moving or pedestrian traffic will be allowed on it.

At a later stage, land along the expressway will be acquired and tourist spots developed along the stretch. ‘‘These complexes won’t be visible from the main expressway as on highways in European countries. There will be indicators for food plazas and resting places for commuters. Roadside dhabas will not be allowed,’’ said a senior HSIDC official. As per the environment impact assessment report prepared by RITES for environmental enhancement along this stretch, greenery and water bodies will be developed. Truck parks, bus stops, rest areas and cultural properties will be created.


HURDLES CLEARED

• Construction of 136-km expressway to begin next month
• To be completed by November 2009
• Land acquired and environmental impact assessment done
• Dual carriageway with four lanes, provision for adding two more lanes
• Only for high-speed traffic, provided with grade separators
• Tourist spots to be developed along the stretch
• Will reduce pollution, accidents in Delhi

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mayank

Might be True..

Who Knows.....Yeh India hai bahi..

No comment plz....

prabhat

Really Good News for Delhiites...Sare jahan se achha Hidustan hamara (Our india is better than the world)

mayank

Agree..No doubt dear...

indiansunite

Good news! I heard there is also a plan to make an eastern peripheral expressway. So then it will be a complete ring road expressway

motorbike

True!!!
The third ring road has been proposed to link NH-1 at Kundli to NH-2 at South of Faridabad at Sikri through Ghaziabad and NOIDA on the Eastern side of GNCT Delhi and is termed as the Eastern Peripheral Expressway.