The way ahead: NHAI to put four more expressways on the fast track

As the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) works to complete the marquee Delhi-Mumbai Expressway project, there are four more such high-speed highways lined up for execution by the Centre.
 
They are the Ahmedabad-Dholera, Delhi-Amritsar-Katra, Bengaluru-Chennai and Kanpur-Lucknow stretches, which would be taken up next.
 
Union minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari last week examined the progress of the 1,380 km long Delhi-Mumbai expressway that is expected to reduce travel time between the two cities to 12 hours.
 
Construction of the Kanpur-Lucknow expressway is expected to start from December this year, as nearly 70 per