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Govt constructing expressways with investment of Rs 4.5 trn: Gadakri

The government is constructing several greenfield expressway projects totalling 10,000 km across the country at a cost of Rs 4.5 lakh crore, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said Monday. The road, transport and highways minister said the road network is being set up under the Bharatmala Pariyojana. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has generated more than Rs 70,000 crore through various models of financing and the amount will be utilsed to build highway projects, he noted. "The government has conceptualized Bharatmala Pariyojna of 65,000 km of highway development across the country. The phase 1 road network is of 34,800 km... We are constructing 10,000 km of greenfield expressways at a cost of Rs 4.5 lakh crore," he said addressing an event on 'Management Development Program on Infrastructure Financing' organised by IIM Kozhikode. According to the minister, India's total National Highway (NH) network has increased from 91,000 km in 2014 to nearly 1.45 lakh km at ...

Maha CM Shinde assures steps to curb accidents on Samruddhi Expressway

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Saturday said his government has taken the Buldhana bus tragedy, in which 25 persons were charred to death, seriously, and assured that measures would be taken to prevent accidents on the Nagpur-Mumbai Samruddhi Expressway. Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis visited Pimpalkhuta village in Buldhana district, where the accident occurred in the wee hours of Saturday. They interacted with the police personnel, district administration officials and local residents who apprised them of the sequence of the tragedy. Speaking to reporters at the site, Shinde said drivers of all vehicles need to follow rules related to speed limit. "So far, most of the accidents on the Samruddhi Expressway have occurred due to human errors. But the government has taken this accident seriously and steps will be taken to ensure that accidents and errors don't happen," he said. Experts would be consulted before putting in place measures to prevent ...

Maharashtra CM Shinde, Dy CM Fadnavis reach Buldhana bus accident site

The accident, in which 25 people have lost their lives, took place at around 1:30 am on Saturday on the Samruddhi-Mahamarg Expressway in Maharashtra's Buldhana

Maha bus accident: Tyre burst caused mishap which killed 25, say police

Officials said that the driver told the police that the accident took place after a tyre burst, causing the bus to overturn. Later the diesel tank of the bus caught fire

Maha bus accident: CM Shinde announces Rs 5 lakh ex gratia, free treatment

The Maharashtra CM has also ordered a probe into the accident which claimed many lives

25 people charred to death as bus catches fire on expressway in Maharashtra

Twenty five bus passengers were charred to death after the vehicle caught fire on the Samruddhi Expressway in Maharashtra's Buldhana district on Saturday, police said. The private travels bus was on way from Nagpur to Pune when it rammed into a divider around 1.30 am near Sindkhedraja in Buldhana district, police said. Buldhana SP Sunil Kadasne told PTI that as per preliminary information, a bus tyre burst and the vehicle hit a pole, collided with a divider and caught fire. Of the 33 passengers in the bus, 25 were charred to death, the official said. The remaining eight passengers have been rushed to nearby hospital and are safe, he added.

Samruddhi Expressway sees 39 deaths in accidents since launch in Dec 2022

A total of 39 persons have lost their lives and 143 were injured in accidents on the Mumbai-Nagpur Samruddhi Expressway since its launch in December 2022 till the end of April this year, a senior police official has said. Addressing the media on Friday, the State Highway Police official said "road hypnotism" was one of the causes of these accidents. Road hypnosis, also called white line fever, is an altered mental state faced by drivers due to "automaticity" or the process of doing things automatically without actively thinking about the steps involved. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had on December 11, 2022 inaugurated the first phase of the expressway between Nagpur and Shirdi that covers a distance of 520 km. The length of the total project, officially named as 'Hindu Hrudaysamrat Balasaheb Thackeray Maharashtra Samruddhi Mahamarg', is 701 km. The project is aimed at reducing the travel time from Nagpur to Mumbai to seven hours. "There were 358 accidents on the Samruddhi Corridor

Dwarka Expressway will be completed by April 2024, says Nitin Gadkari

Dwarka Expressway, India's first elevated urban expressway, being constructed at an estimated cost of Rs 10,000 crore, as part of the Delhi decongestion plan, will be completed in the next 3-4 months, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Thursday. The Expressway will be completed in four packages, he added. The road transport minister said Dwarka Expressway will have a fully-automated tolling system and the entire project will be equipped with an intelligent transportation system (ITS). Dwarka Expressway starts near Shiv Murti on NH-8 and terminates near Kherki Daula Toll plaza on NH-8. The total length of Dwarka Expressway is 29 km, out of which 18.9 km length falls in Haryana, while the remaining 10.1 km is in Delhi. It will provide connectivity to Indira Gandhi International Airport from Dwarka side through Dwarka Expressway. In addition the proposed Dwarka Expressway would provide direct access to upcoming India International Convention Centre in sector 25 of Dwarka.

Varanasi- Kolkata Expressway: Travel From Delhi to Kolkata in 17 hours

At present, the Purvanchal, Lucknow-Agra, and Yamuna Expressways make it possible for a traveller to cover the Delhi-Varanasi journey in just over 10 hours

No entry for heavy vehicles on Noida expressway from 7 am to 10 pm

Currently, heavy vehicles travel through the expressway from 11 am to 5 pm

Work begins on installation of steel spans on RRTS corridor in Delhi: NCRTC

Work has begun on installation of six steel spans on a 350-metre stretch of the Delhi-Meerut-Ghaziabad RRTS corridor in the national capital, officials said on Monday. This is the only location on the entire Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) corridor where such a long viaduct is being constructed with steel spans, the National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC) said in a statement. Of these, the about 70-metre-long first special steel span has been successfully installed. This special steel span, weighing 560 tonnes, has been installed in the Kondli area near the New Ashok Nagar RRTS station, it said. The six steel spans are to be installed near Ghazipur drain for construction of the viaduct. The RRTS corridor is progressing parallel to the drain. These special steel spans are being installed where the corridor will cross the drain. These spans will also cross the road near Kondli Chowk. The length of three spans will be approximately 70 metres each and that of the ..

Ahead of inaugural by PM, credit war rages for Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway

Ahead of the Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway's inauguration by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the JD (S) has started a campaign claiming that it was a dream project of former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda

PM Modi to dedicate to nation Bengaluru-Mysuru expressway on March 12

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the poll-bound Karnataka on March 12 where he will dedicate and lay the foundation stones for projects worth around Rs 16,000 crore. The Prime Minister will dedicate to the nation Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway. The project involves six-laning of the Bengaluru-Nidaghatta-Mysuru section of NH-275. The 118 km long project has been developed at a total cost of around Rs 8,480 crore, a government statement said. The infrastructure project will reduce the travel time between Bengaluru and Mysuru from around 3 hours to about 75 minutes. The Prime Minister will also lay the foundation stone for Mysuru-Khushalnagar four-lane highway. Spread over 92 km, the project will be developed at a cost of around Rs 4,130 crore. It will play a key role in boosting connectivity of Kushalnagar with Bengaluru and will help halve the travel time from about 5 to only 2.5 hours. Modi will then fly to Hubballi where he will will dedicate IIT Dharwad to the nation. The ..

On the new Delhi-Mumbai expressway, a battle between the heart and the mind

If you are going to Jaipur from Delhi, the new stretch of the National Expressway 4 (NE4) makes the journey more enjoyable than the destination

NHAI prohibits entry of slow moving vehicles on Delhi-Mumbai Expressway

Two-wheelers, including motorcycles and scooters, three-wheelers, non-motorised vehicles, and tractors with or without trailers have been barred from entry

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Section of Delhi-Mumbai expressway to open to commuters today: Officials

The 246-km Delhi-Dausa-Lalsot section of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway will open to commuters from 8 am on Wednesday, officials said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had inaugurated the section, which is set to reduce the travel time from the national capital to Jaipur from five hours to around three and a half hours, on Sunday. "The expressway will be opened for the common people from Wednesday. The first toll plaza has been made near Nuh, where the car FASTag will be scanned... Basic facilities will be made available on the expressway soon," Mudit Garg, Project Director of NHAI, said on Tuesday. Those going from Delhi to Jaipur will have two alternative routes. Drivers will be able to reach Dausa in Rajasthan from Alipur in Sohna via Rajeev Chowk using the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, he said. The expressway was kick started in 2018, with the foundation stone being laid on March 9, 2019. It is expected to halve the commute time between Delhi and Mumbai from nearly 24 hours to 12 hours and

Govt begins consultations with sector experts on road safety standards

Safety index for highways on the cards; key focus is on four Es--engineering, education, enforcement and emergency care

What makes Delhi Mumbai Expressway the crown jewel of India's road infra

The project, being built at a cost a trillion rupees, is the country's longest expressway, and is endowed with hundreds of amenities and facilities

Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, freight corridor to be pillars of progress: PM

Modi brings infra in focus ahead of Rajasthan polls, opens first phase of India's longest expressway